Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Myth of Hero and Leander written by Silvia Montiglio and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander written by Brian Oliver Murdoch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Musaeus Hero and Leander written by Silvia Montiglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hero and Leander An Operatic Burletta in Two Acts written by Isaac Jackman and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Leander and Hero by Joan Ro s de Corella written by Joan Rois de Corella and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hero and Leander A poem Begunne by C Marloe and finished by G Chapman With a dedication by E B written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1629 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England written by Judith Deborah Haber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies Hero and Leander Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aphrodite s Tears written by Hannah Fielding and published by London Wall Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greece, one of the twelve labours of Heracles was to bring back a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. To archaeologist Oriel Anderson, joining a team of Greek divers on the island of Helios seems like the golden apple of her dreams. Yet the dream becomes a nightmare when she meets the devilish owner of the island, Damian Lekkas. In shocked recognition, she is flooded with the memory of a romantic night in a stranger's arms, six summers ago. A very different man stands before her now, and Oriel senses that the sardonic Greek autocrat is hell-bent on playing a cat and mouse game with her. As they cross swords and passions mount, Oriel is aware that malevolent eyes watch her from the shadows. Dark rumours are whispered about the Lekkas family. What dangers lie in Helios, a bewitching land where ancient rituals are still enacted to appease the gods, young men risk their lives in the treacherous depths of the Ionian Sea, and the volatile earth can erupt at any moment? Will Oriel find the hidden treasures she seeks? Or will Damian's tragic past catch up with them, threatening to engulf them both?
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlowe's unfinished masterpiece, as completed by George Chapman (1598). Includes an introduction and notes by Edward Blunt.
Download or read book Marlowe A Critical Study written by J. B. Steane and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1964-01-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough critical study of Marlowe's entire output - plays, translations and poems - prefaced by a biographical chapter. It is an attempt to provide the 'life and works' study for the general reader. Mr Steane takes the poetry as the centre of his interest; offering a literary judgement on Marlowe's art rather than further discussion of sources and background. He provides a balanced account of a great poetic dramatist, a writer of exceptional power whose poetry also reveals profound human flaws.
Download or read book A General Bibliographical Dictionary written by Friedrich Adolf Ebert and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New written by Walter Crane and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
