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Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was
first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel
Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche
has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as
plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range
of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius' story of the love
between the mortal princess Psyche (or "Soul") and the god of Love
has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets,
psychoanalysts, children's books authors, neo-Platonist
philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves
produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This
volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P
in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary
undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material
in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in
Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as
well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international
team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single
works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of
Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.
Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was
first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel
Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche
has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as
plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range
of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius' story of the love
between the mortal princess Psyche (or "Soul") and the god of Love
has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets,
psychoanalysts, children's books authors, neo-Platonist
philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves
produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This
volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P
in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary
undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material
in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in
Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as
well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international
team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single
works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of
Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.
Regine May discusses the use of drama as an intertext in the work
of the 2nd century Latin author Apuleius, who wrote the only
complete extant Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, in which a young
man is turned into a donkey by magic. Apuleius uses drama,
especially comedy, as a basic underlying texture, and invites his
readers to use their knowledge of contemporary drama in
interpreting the fate of his protagonist and the often comic or
tragic situations in which he finds himself. May employs a close
study of the Latin text and detailed comparison with the corpus of
dramatic texts from antiquity, as well as discussion of stock
features of ancient drama, especially of comedy, in order to
explain some features of the novel which have so far baffled
Apuleian scholarship, including the enigmatic ending. All Latin and
Greek has been translated into English.
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