{"id":1994,"date":"2017-10-06T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2017-10-06T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:42:01","slug":"book-announcement-interweaving-myths-in-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-interweaving-myths-in-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries<\/em>, ed. Janice Valls-Russell, Agn\u00e8s Lafont & Charlotte Coffin<\/h1>\n

Manchester University Press, 2017<\/h2>\n

304 pages, ISBN: 978-1-5261-1768-7<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>DESCRIPTION: This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido, Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity\/<\/p>\n

Contents<\/h3>\n

Introduction: \u2018Ariachne\u2019s broken woof\u2019 – Janice Valls-Russell, Agn\u00e8s Lafont and Charlotte Coffin<\/p>\n

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  1. Shakespeare\u2019s mythological feuilletage: A methodological induction – Yves Peyr\u00e9<\/li>\n
  2. The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield – Tania Demetriou<\/li>\n
  3. This realm is an empire\u2019: Tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England – Dominique Goy-Blanquet<\/li>\n
  4. Trojan shadows in Shakespeare\u2019s King John – Janice Valls-Russell<\/li>\n
  5. Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in\u00a0The Merchant of Venice\u00a0<\/em>– Atsuhiko Hirota<\/li>\n
  6. Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature – Katherine Heavey<\/li>\n
  7. \u2018She, whom Jove transported into Crete\u2019: Europa, between consent and rape – Ga\u00eblle Ginestet<\/li>\n
  8. Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama – Nathalie Riv\u00e8re de Carles<\/li>\n
  9. Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe\u2019s Dido, Queen of Carthage – Agn\u00e8s Lafont<\/li>\n
  10. Burlesque or neoplatonic? Popular or elite? The shifting value of classical mythology in\u00a0Love\u2019s Mistress<\/em>– Charlotte Coffin<\/li>\n
  11. Pygmalion, once and future myth: Instead of a conclusion – Ruth Morse<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Index<\/p>\n

    Details: http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526117687\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    Editors<\/h3>\n
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    • Janice Valls-Russell is employed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Universit\u00e9 Paul-Val\u00e9ry, Montpellier, France, where she coordinates early modern research projects<\/li>\n
    • Agn\u00e8s Lafont is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Universit\u00e9 Paul Val\u00e9ry, Montpellier, France<\/li>\n
    • Charlotte Coffin is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Est Cr\u00e9teil Val de Marne, France<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ed. Janice Valls-Russell, Agn\u00e8s Lafont & Charlotte Coffin Manchester University Press, 2017 304 pages, ISBN: 978-1-5261-1768-7 DESCRIPTION: This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}