Seminar No. 4.4.

Title:  Shakespeare's Narrative Poems.

Leaders:

Christa Jansohn (University of Bonn, Germany)
Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library, USA).

Participants.
 
 

Abstract:

This seminar proposes to take a fresh look at Shakespeare's three narrative poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and A Lover's Complaint. We invite participants to explore these texts in ways that we hope will lead to informative discussion: questions of gender and/or of love, desire and rape; the relation of these poems to other plays
and poems of the time or to other works by Shakespeare; the reception of these poems in art, music and translation
or in different periods (18th century, 19th century, etc.); the material text and its readership; dramatic dimensions of the poems; the poems in performance.