This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history.

Janice Valls-Russell is at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier; Agnès Lafont is Senior Lecturer at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier; Charlotte Coffin is at Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne

Introduction: 'Ariachne's broken woof' - Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont and Charlotte Coffin
1 Shakespeare's mythological feuilletage: A methodological induction - Yves Peyré
2 The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield - Tania Demetriou
3 'This realm is an empire': Tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England - Dominique Goy-Blanquet
4 Trojan shadows in Shakespeare's King John - Janice Valls-Russell
5 Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in The Merchant of Venice - Atsuhiko Hirota
6 Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature - Katherine Heavey
7 'She, whom Jove transported into Crete': Europa, between consent and rape - Gaëlle Ginestet
8 Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama - Nathalie Rivère de Carles
9 Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage - Agnès Lafont
10 Burlesque or neoplatonic? Popular or elite? The shifting value of classical mythology in Love's Mistress - Charlotte Coffin
11 Pygmalion, once and future myth: Instead of a conclusion - Ruth Morse
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