English Drama 1586-1642
English Drama 1586-1642

Author: G. K. Hunter

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780198122135

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Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions of the Elizabethan repertory, examining how Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists were able to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic transcendence.

Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature
Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature

Author: S. Carter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-25

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0230306071

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Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality.