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- catalog abstract ""Venus and Adonis (1593) was the poem that made Shakespeare's reputation. In Variable Passions Anthony Mortimer's study illuminates the poem's starling shifts in tone, its subtle means of continuity and its willy inversion of gender roles. Variable Passions breaks new ground in seeing Venus and Adonis in relation not only to its Ovidian source but also to the whole continental tradition of Venus and Adonis poems. What emerges is a Shakespeare acutely conscious both of the relevance and irrelevance of myth and of the functions and dysfunctions of rhetoric."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11741051.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Venus and Adonis (1593) was the poem that made Shakespeare's reputation. In Variable Passions Anthony Mortimer's study illuminates the poem's starling shifts in tone, its subtle means of continuity and its willy inversion of gender roles. Variable Passions breaks new ground in seeing Venus and Adonis in relation not only to its Ovidian source but also to the whole continental tradition of Venus and Adonis poems. What emerges is a Shakespeare acutely conscious both of the relevance and irrelevance of myth and of the functions and dysfunctions of rhetoric."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index.".
- catalog description "Rhetoric, myth and the descent of Venus -- "The heart's attorney": Venus as wooer -- "Danger deviseth shifts": postponing the boar -- "With him is beauty slain": death and metamorphosis -- Shakespeare and the Italian tradition of Venus and Adonis.".
- catalog extent "xv, 213 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0404623360 (hc.)".
- catalog isPartOf "AMS studies in the Renaissance ; no. 36".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : AMS Press,".
- catalog subject "821/.3 21".
- catalog subject "Adonis (Greek deity) In literature.".
- catalog subject "Adonis (Greek deity) in literature.".
- catalog subject "English poetry Italian influences.".
- catalog subject "Mythology, Classical, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR2845 .M67 2000".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Venus and Adonis.".
- catalog subject "Venus (Roman deity) In literature.".
- catalog subject "Venus (Roman deity) in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Rhetoric, myth and the descent of Venus -- "The heart's attorney": Venus as wooer -- "Danger deviseth shifts": postponing the boar -- "With him is beauty slain": death and metamorphosis -- Shakespeare and the Italian tradition of Venus and Adonis.".
- catalog title "Variable passions : a reading of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis / Anthony Mortimer.".
- catalog type "text".