Les visages de Diane chez Shakespeare et Cervantès

The figure of Diana is very important in Shakespeare’s and Cervantes’ works. They both rewrite Ovidian myth, but they also take inspiration from Montemayor’s Seven Books of Diana. According to the myth, Diana is both the goddess of chastity and a figure
of the “unspeakable”, but Shakespeare and Cervantes also present her as the actress par excellence. They offer a self-reflexive reinvestment of the myth: Diana is an allegory of the inaccessible Poetry.