Shakespeare's Ovid : the Metamorphoses in the plays and poems

Shakespeare's Ovid : the Metamorphoses in the plays and poems / edited by A.B. Taylor.

"Ovid's great poem, the Metamorphoses, was a source of life-long fascination and inspiration for Shakespeare. He drew on its great myths throughout his career: in early works like Venus and Adonis and Titus Andronicus, works of the middle period like A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twel...

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Other Authors: Taylor, A. B. (Anthony Brian)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Literature.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Metamorphoses.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Sources.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Influence.
English literature > Roman influences.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Sources.
Online Access:Sample text
Table of contents
Publisher description
Holy Cross Note:"This digitally printed first paperback version 2006" -- Title page verso of Copy 2.
Table of Contents:
  • Myths exploited: the metamorphoses of Ovid in early Elizabethan England / R.W. Maslen
  • Ovid "renascent" in Venus and Adonis and Hero and Leander / John Roe
  • "And love you 'gainst the nature of love": Ovid, rape, and The two gentlemen of Verona / William C. Carroll
  • Animals in "manly shape as too the outward showe": moralizing and metamorphosis in Titus Andronicus / A.B. Taylor
  • Venus and Adonis and Ovidian indecorous wit / Pauline Kiernan
  • Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare's Sonnets / Gordon Braden
  • Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid / Niall Rudd
  • Niobe and the Nemean Lion: reading Hamlet in the light of Ovid's Metamorphoses / Yves Peyré
  • The winter's tale: Ovid transformed / A.D. Nuttall
  • Ovid, Golding, and the "rough magic" of The tempest / Raphael Lyne
  • Ovidian v(o)ices in Marlowe and Shakespeare: the Actaeon variations / François Laroque
  • Shakespeare's Ovid in the twentieth century: a critical survey / John W. Velz
  • Shakespeare's Ovid, Ovid's Shakespeare: a methodological postscript / Charles Martindale.

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