Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword/Forward
Acknowledgements
A note on the text
Introduction: ‘Ariachne’s broken woof’
Shakespeare’s mythological feuilletage: A methodological induction
The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield
‘This realm is an empire’: Tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England
Trojan shadows in Shakespeare’s King John
Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in The Merchant of Venice
Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature
‘She, whom Jove transported into Crete’: Europa, between consent and rape
Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama
Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage
Burlesque or neoplatonic? Popular or elite?: The shifting value of classical mythology in Love's Mistress
Pygmalion, once and future myth: Instead of a conclusion
Select bibliography
Index