Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture

Agnès Lafont is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies in the English Department at Université Paul Valery Montpellier III, France.

Introduction Interacting with Eros: Ovid and Shakespeare, Agnès Lafont; Part I Erotic Aesthetics and Printing Politics; Chapter 1 Ovid’s ‘Meta-metamorphosis’: Book Illustration and the Circulation of Erotic Iconographical Patterns, Ilaria Andreoli; Chapter 2 Political Uses of Erotic Power in an Elizabethan Mythological Programme: Dangerous Interactions with Diana in Hardwick Hall, Agnès Lafont; Part II Shakespeare’s Erotic Power of Imagination; Chapter 3 Erotic Fancy/Fantasy in Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra, François Laroque; Chapter 4 Erotic Perspectives: When Pyramus and Thisbe Meet Hero and Leander in Romeo and Juliet, Janice Valls-Russell; Part III Shakespeare’s Erotic Power of Recreation (and Miscreation); Chapter 5 Priapus in Shakespeare: From Luxuriant Gardens to Luxurious Brothels, Frédéric Delord; Chapter 6 Parody and the Erotic Beast: Relocating Titania and Bottom, Stuart Sillars; Chapter 7 Cupid, Infantilism and Maternal Desire on the Early Modern Stage, Jane Kingsley-Smith; Chapter 8 Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides and The Winter’s Tale, Sarah Annes Brown; Chapter 9 The ‘new Gorgon’: Eros, Terror and Violence in Macbeth, Marguerite A. Tassi; Part IV Coda; Chapter 10 Femmina masculo e masculo femmina: Ovidian Mythical Structures, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and As You Like It, Yves Peyré;