Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays [electronic resource] : Transforming Ovid /
Starks-Estes, L.author.
Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Love's Wound: Violence, Trauma, and Ovidian Transformation in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays; 1 The Origin of Love: Ovidian Lovesickness and Trauma in Venus and Adonis; 2 Shakespeare''s Perverse Astraea, Martyr''d Philomel, and Lamenting Hecuba: Ovid, Sadomasochism, and Trauma in Titus Andronicus; 3 Dido and Aeneas ''Metamorphis''d'': Ovid, Marlowe, and the Masochistic Scenario in Antony and Cleopatra; Part II: Transforming Bodies: Trauma, Virtus, and the Limits of Neo-Stoicism in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays
4 ''A wretched image bound'': Neo-Stoicism, Trauma, and the Dangers of the Bounded Self in The Rape of Lucrece5 Bleeding Martyrs: The Body of the Tyrant/Saint, the Limits of ''Constancy'', and the Extremity of the Passions in Julius Caesar; 6 ''One whole wound'': Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Coriolanus; Coda: Philomela''s Song: Transformations of Ovid, Trauma, and Masochism in A Midsummer Night''s Dream and Cymbeline; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Literature, Modern.
Literature-Philosophy.
British literature.
Poetry.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.