Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture Edited by AGNES LAFONT Universite Paul- Valery Montpellier III, France ASHGATE
Contents List of Figures and Plates Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Textual Notes vii ix xi xiii Introduction Interacting with Eros: Ovid and Shakespeare 1 Agnes Lafont PART I EROTIC AESTHETICS AND PRINTING POLITICS 1 Ovid's 'Meta-metamorphosis': Book Illustration and the Circulation of Erotic Iconographical Patterns 19 Ilaria Andreoli 2 Political Uses of Erotic Power in an Elizabethan Mythological Programme: Dangerous Interactions with Diana in Hardwick Hall 41 Agnes Lafont PART II SHAKESPEARE'S EROTIC POWER OF IMAGINATION 3 Erotic Fancy/Fantasy in Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Antony and Cleopatra 61 Franqois Laroque 4 Erotic Perspectives: When Pyramus and Thisbe Meet Hero and Leander in Romeo and Juliet 77 Janice Valls-Russell
vi Shakespeare s Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture PART III SHAKESPEARE'S EROTIC POWER OF RECREATION (AND MISCREATION) Parodic Interactions with Darker Desires 5 Priapus in Shakespeare: From Luxuriant Gardens to Luxurious Brothels 93 Frederic Delord 6 Parody and the Erotic Beast: Relocating Titania and Bottom 107 Stuart Sillars Flirting with Erotic Taboos 7 Cupid, Infantilism and Maternal Desire on the Early Modern Stage ~ 123 Jane Kings ley-smith 8 Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides and The Winter s Tale 139 Sarah Annes Brown Deadly Rapture 9 The'new Gorgon': Eros, Terror and Violence in Macbeth 155 Marguerite A. Tassi PART IV CODA 10 Femmina masculo e masculo femmina: Ovidian Mythical Structures, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and As You Like It 173 Yves Peyre General Bibliography 183 Index 197
List of Figures 2.1 The Nymph of Fontainebleau (mid-1540s), design by Rosso Fiorentino, print by Pierre Milan (C.1500-C.1557) and Rene Boyvin (1525-1580/1598), 10-537439, EC1920, Ecouen, Musee National de la Renaissance RMN-Grand Palais /Stephane Marechalle. 42 2.2 The Nymph of Fontainebleau (c. 1545), design (EC1920) by Rosso Fiorentino (1494 1541), bronze by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), 2.05 m x 4.09 m, MR1706, Musee du Louvre, Paris. RMN-Grand Palais (Musee du Louvre)/Christian Jean. 44 2.3 Diana reclining on a hart or Diana of Anet (mid-16th century), attributed to Germain Pilon, 2.11 m x 2.58 m x 1.34 m, marble sculpture, lost fountain of Diana for the house of Anet (Normandy), 73-007357, MR1581, MRsupl23, Musee du Louvre, Paris RMN-Grand Palais (Musee du Louvre), droits reserves. 45 2.4 Claude Mignault, Omnia Andrea Alciati V.C. Emblemata, per Claudium Minoem Divionensem (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1574), Res Mn 7815/3, emblem 52, p. 167, S.I.C.D., Toulouse OSCD Toulouse 1, Bibliotheque Universitaire de 1'Arsenal. 51 5.1 Vincenzo Cartari, Le Imagini de i dei de gli antichi nelle quali si contengono gl'idoli, riti, ceremoniae et altre cose appartenenti alia religione de gli antichi, racolte dal sig. Vincenzo Cartari, 1581, Res. D XVI 802, p. 370 Bibliotheque Municipale de Toulouse, Fonds Ancien, AMPACE/Gaston Boussieres, droits reserves. 99 6.1 Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499) National Library of Norway. Ill 6.2 Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499) National Library of Norway. 116
List of Plates 1 Plasterwork frieze of Diana, the Huntress (detail), in the High Great Chamber at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire (National Trust). 2 The Death ofactaeon, Elizabeth Talbot, framed panel, originally a cushion cover, the Drawing Room, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire (National Trust). 3 Nicolas Regnier (Flemish, 1591-1667), worked in Italy 1615-67, Hero andleander (c. 1625-1626), oil on canvas, 155.3 x 209.5 "cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1955. 4 Pyramus and Thisbe (beg. of the 16th cent.), Anonymous painting, Colmar Museum. 5 Hero and Leander Series of Mortlake tapestries (detail), designed by Francis Cleyn (c. 1630-36), Lower Staircase, Hardwick Hall (National Trust). 6 Ceiling of the Loggia of Psyche (detail), Villa Farnesina (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma). 7 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) workshop of, Bacchus (c. 1510-1515), oil on panel transferred to canvas, 1,77 m x 1,15 m, Musee du Louvre, Paris. 8 Andrea Del Sarto (1486-1530), Saint John The Baptist (c. 1517), 71.0 x 50.0 cm, oil on panel transferred to canvas, 1984.38, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Museum purchase, restricted funds; gifts from Louise I. Doyle, Britta D. Jeppson, The Reverend and Mrs. De Wolf Perry in memory of Harriett Brooks Hawkins; the Worcester Art Museum Members' Council, and anonymous donors.