"Powdered with Golden Rain": The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama.(Book Review)

Early Modern Literary Studies | September 1, 2002| | Copyright

"Powdered with Golden Rain": The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama

Julie Sanders

Keele University

ena13@cc.keele.edu

Sanders, Julie. "'Powdered with Golden Rain':The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama." Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September, 2002): 1.1-23 .

In a telling scene from the film version of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove (dir. Iain Softley, 1998), Merton Densher, already engaged in an illicit encounter with his lover Kate Croy, meets unexpectedly at an art gallery with the American heiress Milly Theale. ...

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