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Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture

The first comprehensive study of this topic required the mastery of a multi-disciplinary cultural field and a very wide range of sources:

• Cupid’s iconographic history from the classical era to the Renaissance

• dramatic texts by Thomas Preston, Robert Wilmot, Lyly, Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton, Beaumont and Fletcher, Thomas Heywood and Mary Wroth; masques by Mary Stuart, Thomas Churchyard, Jonson and Davenant

• visual art by Alciato, Whitney, Bronzino and Caravaggio; paintings and jewellery at Holyrood House, Edinburgh.

• archives in the British Library, Warburg Institute, Uffizi museum, Florence, National Gallery, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Royal Collection Buckingham Palace, Courtauld Institute