Collection(s) : Collection CNED-Didier concours
Paru le 01/10/1998 | Broché 191 pages
Doctorat
Of the many mythological verse narratives that were inspired by Ovid in the English Renaissance, Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis (1593) is one of the most important. Through close readings of the text, these essays explore the complexities of the poem's imaginative, rhetorical and structural patterns and provide keys to their elaborate construction by referring back to the context of Renaissance Ovidian poems, mythographical interpretations, and related myths such as that of the Gardens of Adonis. What emerges is a kaleidoscopic poem, constantly shifting in tone and perspective, that challenges the reader's capacity for intellectual versatility.
This volume is designed to help candidates for the Agrégation by suggesting lines of thought leading into the poem, while providing them with methodological tools so that they may in turn embark on their own exploration of this fascinating, elusive poem.
Yves Peyré is Professor of English Literature at the University of Toulouse II. He is the author of La voix des mythes dans la tragédie élisabéthaine (Paris, CNRS Editions, 1996).
François Laroque is Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is the author of Shakespeare's Festive World (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
