Introduction; 1. Cupid, art and idolatry; 2. Cupid, death and tragedy; 3. Cupid, chastity and rebellious women; 4. Cupid and the boy: the pleasure and pain of boy-love; 5. 'Cupid and Psyche': the return of the sacred?
Kingsley-Smith demonstrates how Cupid played a crucial role in the struggle to categorise and control desire in early modern England.
Jane Kingsley-Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Roehampton University and is a regular guest lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe. She is the author of Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and has also published on a range of topics including representations of Shakespeare in popular cinema, Elizabethan love tragedy and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
"In sure-footed, economical prose the author moves back and forth
between poetry, painting, and drama with great but not (we are
grateful) dizzying speed."
-DAVID SCOTT WILSON-OKAMURA,East Carolina University
"It is a pity that it could not be more fully illustrated, since
its historical survey includes the fascinating conflation, in the
visual arts, of Venus and Cupid with Mary and Jesus." -- Studies in
English Literature
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