Erotic suffering in Shakespeare and Sidney
Subtitle: a central theme in Elizabethan and Jacobean romance
By: Darlene Ciraulo ; with a foreword by Christy Desmet
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773413559
Subjects: Literature; Knowledge; English drama; English literature; History and criticism; Classical influences; Eroticism in literature; Sex (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Erotic suffering: Greek romance in early modern contexts; title: Erotic suffering and female heroism in Sidney's New Arcadia; title: Sexual symmetry and erotic suffering in Shakespeare's Pericles; title: Child abandonment and female suffering in Shakespeare's the Winter's tale; title: The comedy of erotic suffering: Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline.