Author: Christopher MarlowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Hero and Leander
Author: Christopher MarloweThe Myth of Hero and Leander
Author: Silvia MontiglioPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786722909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover's mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West. Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and eroticism, the author explores the origin of the legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages - notably in the writings of Christine de Pizan - and Renaissance; how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton.
The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander
Author: Brian Oliver MurdochPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900440094X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
A study of the literary reception of the love-story of Hero and Leander and its popularity from classical times to the present in different genres, from epigram to epic, and including drama, opera, burlesques and modern experimental works.
Musaeus' Hero and Leander
Author: Silvia MontiglioPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135113700X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book offers a new English translation of Musaeus' poem Hero and Leander, with the original Greek on the facing page, a substantial introduction and a detailed commentary. The tragic romance of Hero and Leander has had and still has a great appeal, inspiring countless writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians. The Introduction aims at situating the poem within its literary tradition and cultural context as well as at drawing its major themes and describing the salient features of its style. Because Hero and Leander enjoyed an immense and uninterrupted popularity, the Introduction also devotes a large section to the poem’s reception in literature, which crosses paths with the reception of the other main ancient poetic treatment of the legend, Ovid’s Heroides 18 and 19. The commentary, which follows the Greek text and its translation, is addressed to a variety of readers: the student and the scholar of Greek literature, as well as those of other literatures in which the poem has been inspirational. This work has no precedent in the English language. This new translation will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek and late antique literature, as well as those working on mythology and classical reception.
Hero and Leander
Author: Christopher MarlowePublisher:
ISBN: 9780384354005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Loves of Hero and Leander
Author: Musaeus (Grammaticus.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hero (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Hero and Leander
Author: Christopher MarloweHero and Leander. An Operatic Burletta, in Two Acts
Author: Isaac JackmanThe Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella
Author: Joan Rois de CorellaPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027266646
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.
Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England
Author: Judith Deborah HaberPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521518679
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This wide-ranging study uses close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton and Ford to investigate the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change or undermine the structures in which they are embedded.