Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Janice Valls-Russell is employed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, where she coordinates early modern research projects Agnès Lafont is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier Charlotte Coffin is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne -- .

Introduction: ‘Ariachne’s broken woof’ – Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont and Charlotte Coffin
1 Shakespeare’s mythological feuilletage: A methodological induction – Yves Peyré
2 The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield – Tania Demetriou
3 ‘This realm is an empire’: Tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England – Dominique Goy-Blanquet
4 Trojan shadows in Shakespeare’s King John – Janice Valls-Russell
5 Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in The Merchant of Venice – Atsuhiko Hirota
6 Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature – Katherine Heavey
7 ‘She, whom Jove transported into Crete’: Europa, between consent and rape – Gaëlle Ginestet
8 Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama – Nathalie Rivère de Carles
9 Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage – Agnès Lafont
10 Burlesque or neoplatonic? Popular or elite? The shifting value of classical mythology in Love’s Mistress – Charlotte Coffin
11 Pygmalion, once and future myth: Instead of a conclusion – Ruth Morse
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