Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays

by Kolin,Philip C.

• ISBN13: 9780815321491
• ISBN10: 081532149X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Shakespeare's first published work, his long narrative poemVenus and Adonis, which established his reputation as the literary darling of London and the heir of Ovid. Particularly important is the book's coverage of the little-known presence ofVenus and Adonison stage. A substantial introduction of 65 pagessurveys the history of criticism about the poem and its significance, and addresses such issues as the burdens of readership and the poem as a staged production. Following are 19 reprinted works from the 18th to late 20th centuries and seven original essays by leading scholars that examine the poem from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives-Lacanian desire, semiotics and Elizabethan wardship, female readership, mythology, aesthetics and art history. An extensive chronological bibliography of scholarship, editions, and theatrical and literary reviews makes this volume indispensable.

Table of Contents

GENERAL EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	xi	(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xiii
PART I	3	(64)
VENUS AND/OR ADONIS AMONG THE CRITICS	3	(64)
Philip C. Kolin
PART II	67	(220)
VENUS AND ADONIS AND THE CRITICS	67	(2)
SHAKSPEARE'S VENUS AND ADONIS (1817)	69	(4)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SHAKSPEARE'S POEMS (1823)	73	(2)
Y.J.
VENUS AND ADONIS (1849)	75	(2)
G.G. Gervinus
SHAKESPEARE'S MINOR POEMS (1850)	77	(2)
John S. Hart
THE POEMS OF SHAKESPEARE (1898)	79	(10)
George Wyndham
INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE'S VENUS AND ADONIS (1905)	89	(2)
Sidney Lee
VENUS AND ADONIS AND MYTHOLOGY (1932)	91	(12)
Douglas Bush
SHAKESPEARE'S PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE (1933)	103	(4)
Lu Emily Pearson
FUNCTION OF IMAGERY IN VENUS AND ADONIS (1945)	107	(16)
Hereward T. Price
VENUS AGONISTES (1953)	123	(18)
Rufus Putney
VENUS AND ADONIS (1961)	141	(16)
A.C. Hamilton
TIME-BEGUILING SPORT: NUMBER SYMBOLISM IN SHAKESPEARE'S VENUS AND ADONIS (1964)	157	(14)
Christopher Butler
Alastair Fowler
IDEAL CONDUCT IN VENUS AND ADONIS (1975)	171	(10)
W.R. Streitberger
SELF AND EROS IN VENUS AND ADONIS (1976)	181	(22)
Coppelia Kahn
SHAKESPEARE'S MYTH OF VENUS AND ADONIS (1978)	203	(20)
S. Clark Hulse
"UPON MISPRISION GROWING": VENUS AND ADONIS (1987)	223	(24)
Heather Dubrow
THEMATICS OF VALUE IN VENUS AND ADONIS (1989)	247	(12)
Nona Fienberg
VENUS AND ADONIS: AN EARLY ACCOUNT OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT (1994)	259	(2)
Joseph Wortis, M.D.
LOVE AS TROMPE-L'OEIL: TAXONOMIES OF DESIRE IN VENUS AND ADONIS (1995)	261	(26)
Catherine Belsey
PART III	287	(12)
VENUS AND ADONIS IN PRODUCTION	287	(2)
ALMEIDA: VENUS AND LUCRECE (1988)	289	(2)
Betty Caplan
UNDERMAIN'S VENUS SHINES BRIGHTLY (1991)	291	(4)
Julie Dam
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS-VENUS, ADONIS, AND ME (1996)	295	(4)
Benjamin Stewart
PART IV	299	(106)
NEW ESSAYS ON VENUS AND ADONIS	299	(2)
SHAKESPEARE'S VENUS AND THE VENUS OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY	301	(8)
JOAO FROES
VENUS AS PRAECEPTOR: THE ARS AMATORIA IN VENUS AND ADONIS	309	(14)
M.L. Stapleton
WRIOTHESLEY'S RESISTANCE: WARDSHIP PRACTICES, AND OVIDIAN NARRATIVES IN SHAKESPEARE'S VENUS AND ADONIS	323	(18)
Patrick M. Murphy
"LO, IN THIS HOLLOW CRADLE TAKE THY REST": SEXUAL CONFLICT AND RESOLUTION IN VENUS AND ADONIS	341	(18)
Robert P. Merrix
SHAKESPEARE'S VENUS AND ADONIS: A LACANIAN TRAGICOMEDY OF DESIRE	359	(18)
James Schiffer
"PINING THEIR MAWS": FEMALE READERS AND THE EROTIC ONTOLOGY OF THE TEXT IN SHAKESPEARE'S VENUS AND ADONIS	377	(12)
Richard Halpern
PICTURING VENUS AND ADONIS: SHAKESPEARE AND THE ARTISTS	389	(16)
Georgianna Ziegler
PART V	405
A CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCHOLARSHIP AND COMMENTARY ON VENUS AND ADONIS, INCLUDING EDITIONS AND REVIEWS OF PERFORMANCES	405
Philip C. Kolin