Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture Hardback - Hardcover

Kingsley-Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052176761X ISBN 13: 9780521767613

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Cupid became a popular figure in sixteenth-century England, appearing in drama, paintings and lyric poetry. This book argues that Cupid's rise to cultural prominence was a response to the Protestant Reformation, and the debates it provoked about the 'Catholic' sins of lust and idolatry and the legitimacy of female rule.

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"In sure-footed, economical prose the author moves back and forth between poetry, painting, and drama with great but not (we are grateful) dizzying speed."
-DAVID SCOTT WILSON-OKAMURA,East Carolina University

"It is a pity that it could not be more fully illustrated, since its historical survey includes the fascinating conflation, in the visual arts, of Venus and Cupid with Mary and Jesus."
-- Studies in English Literature

Biografía del autor:

Jane Kingsley-Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Roehampton University and is a regular guest lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe. She is the author of Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and has also published on a range of topics including representations of Shakespeare in popular cinema, Elizabethan love tragedy and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 052176761X
• ISBN 13: 9780521767613
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274