Cupid's Revenge


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Cupid's Revenge is a Jacobean tragedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. It was a popular success that influenced subsequent works by other authors. The play depends upon the Arcadia of Sir Philip Sidney for the source of its plot; the Duke in Cupid's Revenge is a blend of Sidney's King of Lycia and King of Iberia. In turn, Cupid's Revenge served as a source for other dramatists. There is a significant relationship between this play and The Birth of Merlin, one of the plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha. Plot elements shared by both works - the missing prince, and the ruler and his heir who fall in love with the same woman-could be due to derivation from common sources; but the plays also feature specific shared lines and passages. Critics also cite detectable influences from Cupid's Revenge on the anonymous tragedy Andromana (printed 1660).







Cupid’s Revenge


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Cupid's livid. It's bad enough he made two people fall in love, but now thanks to King Larus, the whole Immortal Realm knows about it. There's only one thing a troll can do. Get Revenge. Lady Mina and her sister are impoverished, starving, and their castle home is crumbling around their feet. With their father is dead, the servants have all fled and left them to fend for themselves in the middle of winter. Mina doesn’t think things could get worse, until they're kidnapped and left as an offering to a handsome man-beast. After Cupid caused a great disruption amongst his lycans by bringing an enchanted human to their realm, King Larus had to meet with the Council of Elders to tell what the troll had done. It should have been enough to stop future mischief. Or so he thought. Now he’s trapped in the woods with two beautiful women—one whose madly in love with him and one who wants nothing more than to claw his eyes out. Larus is quickly learning not to underestimate a troll bent on revenge. From NYT & USAT Bestselling Author Naughty Cupid Series Anniversary Edition Reader Note: This book has been re-edited and revised for it's anniversary. Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Fantasy Historical Romance Naughty Cupid Series Cupid's Enchantment Cupid's Revenge Cupid's Favor Genres: Dark, High Fantasy, Epic, Medieval, Historical, Paranormal, Other-World Romance, fairies, elves, demons, trolls, mythical, fanciful creatures, shapeshifter, Psychic, paranormal romance, elf, fantasy romance, Wizards, Sorcery, action and adventure, alpha male, bad boy hero, damaged hero, fae, fantasy, hea, kick ass heroine, kick butt chick, legends, labyrinth, magic, myths, romantic adventure, shifter romance, Wizards & Witches, sprights, knights, nobility, royalty, cupid, valentines day, spells, witchcraft, enchantment, comedy, humorous, romantic comedy




Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture


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Cupid became a popular figure in the literary and visual culture of post-Reformation England. He served to articulate and debate the new Protestant theory of desire, inspiring a dark version of love tragedy in which Cupid kills. But he was also implicated in other controversies, as the object of idolatrous, Catholic worship and as an adversary to female rule: Elizabeth I's encounters with Cupid were a crucial feature of her image-construction and changed subtly throughout her reign. Covering a wide variety of material such as paintings, emblems and jewellery, but focusing mainly on poetry and drama, including works by Sidney, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Spenser, Kingsley-Smith illuminates the Protestant struggle to categorise and control desire and the ways in which Cupid disrupted this process. An original perspective on early modern desire, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the literature, drama, gender politics and art history of the English Renaissance.










Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama


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An investigation of how Renaissance English revenge drama carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre.




Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700


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The last twenty-five years have seen exciting new developments in scholarly work on Lady Mary Wroth, whose Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus constitute the first romance and the first sonnet sequence to be published by an Englishwoman. Wroth's writings enter into a suggestive and gendered dialogue with the lyric and narrative works of her uncle, Sir Philip Sidney, even as they carve out a place for her own literary experiments. This volume gathers together some of the most striking recent criticism addressing Wroth's oeuvre; many of its essays also discuss the intellectual and cultural contexts in which she wrote. The collection is prefaced by an extended editorial overview of scholarship in the field.




Philaster, 1622


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Fairy Tales


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