"Parody and the Erotic Beast: Relocating Titania and Bottom"
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Author:
	Sillars, Stuart.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Lafont, Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture, 107–19.
:
	Lafont, Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture
Annotation:
	Relocates Titania and Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream by contending that "polymorphous passion" is reincarnated in the myth of "Pasiphae enamoured of the Bull;" suggests that this Ovidian subtext and possibly that of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili allow the play to invoke images of "female bestial sexuality" while still "retaining its safely comic element of parody because of the compound allusion."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Lafont, Agnès; Colonna, Francesco
Keywords:
	Titania; Bottom; passion; myth; Pasiphae; bestiality; sex; parody
Tags:
	A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Sources and Influences on Shakespeare
WSB Update:
	Winter 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc831