Proserpine Midas Two Unpublished Mythological Dramas Ed By A Koszul
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Proserpine & Midas; Two Unpublished Mythological Dramas. Edited With Introd. by A. Koszul
Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2015-08-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781296904043 |
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Proserpine & Midas
Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Proserpine and Midas
Author | : Mary Shelley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The drama is based on Ovid's tale of the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, which itself was based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Mary Shelley's version focuses on the female characters. In a largely feminist retelling from Ceres's point of view, Shelley emphasises the separation of mother and daughter and the strength offered by a community of women. Ceres represents life and love, and Pluto represents death and violence. The genres of the text also reflect gender debates of the time. Percy contributed in the lyric verse form traditionally dominated by men; Mary created a drama with elements common to early nineteenth-century women's writing: details of everyday life and empathetic dialogue. Proserpine is part of a female literary tradition which, as feminist literary critic Susan Gubar describes it, has used the story of Ceres and Proserpine to "re-define, to re-affirm and to celebrate female consciousness itself". However, the play has been both neglected and marginalised by critics.
Proserpine and Midas (Esprios Classics)
Author | : Mary Shelley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2020-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781715570781 |
Proserpine is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writers Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the blank verse drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems. Composed in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy, it is often considered a partner to the Shelleys' play Midas. Proserpine was first published in the London periodical The Winter's Wreath in 1832. Whether the drama was ever intended to be staged is a point of debate among scholars. The drama is based on Ovid's tale of the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, which itself was based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Mary Shelley's version focuses on the female characters.
Persephone Rises, 1860–1927
Author | : Margot K. Louis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351912011 |
Over the course of the nineteenth century, the figure of Persephone rapidly evolved from what was essentially a decorative metaphor into a living goddess who embodied the most spiritual aspects of ancient Greek religion. In the first comprehensive survey of the Persephone myth in English and American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Margot Louis explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new spirituality but for comprehending the deep and bitter tensions surrounding gender that interacted with this process. Beginning with an overview of the most influential ancient texts on Persephone and references to Persephone in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Romantic period writing, Louis shows that the earliest theories of matriarchy and patriarchal marriage emerged in the 1860s alongside the first English poems to explore Persephone's story. As scholars began to focus on the chthonic Mystery cults, and particularly on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, poets and novelists explored the divisions between mother and daughter occasioned by patriarchal marriage. Issues of fertility and ritual resonate in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Willa Cather's My Antonia, while the first advance of a neo-pagan spirituality, as well as early feminist critiques of male mythography and of the Persephone myth, emerge in Modernist poems and fictions from 1908 to 1927. Informed by the latest research and theoretical work on myth, Margot Louis's fascinating study shows the development of Victorian mythography in a new light; offers original takes on Victorian representations of gender and values; exposes how differently male and female Modernists dealt with issues of myth, ritual, and ancient spirituality; and uncovers how deeply the study of ancient spirituality is entwined with controversies about gender.
Prosepine and Midas
Author | : Mary Shelley |
Publisher | : Xist Publishing |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1681956608 |
Two Plays by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley “If fate decrees, can we resist? farewell! Oh! Mother, dearer to your child than light ” - Prosepine and Midas, Mary Wollstone Shelley A short collection of two mythological dramatic works. A combination of Mary Shelley's drama and Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems. Midas and Prosepine are two plays that were written originally as children's literature.