Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and PoemsA. B. Taylor Ovid's great poem, 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 Twelfth Night, and late plays such as The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. This book provides a comprehensive examination of his use of Ovid's poem with contributions from international scholars. It begins by examining the use of Ovid's myth in early Elizabethan literature, a use dramatically changed by Marlowe and Shakespeare himself. It then offers detailed readings of Shakespeare's use of Ovid in a wide range of plays and poems, placing emphasis on several important but often underestimated features. The book also provides a survey of twentieth-century criticism and methodology in the field. |
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... the Plays and Poems A. B. Taylor. SHAKESPEARE'S SHAKESPEARE'S OVID SHAKESPEARE'S OVID SHAKESPEARE'S OVID The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems EDITED BY A. B. TAYLOR Ovid's great poem , the Metamorphoses , was a source. Front Cover.
... the Plays and Poems A. B. Taylor. SHAKESPEARE'S SHAKESPEARE'S OVID SHAKESPEARE'S OVID SHAKESPEARE'S OVID The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems EDITED BY A. B. TAYLOR Ovid's great poem , the Metamorphoses , was a source. Front Cover.
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The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems A. B. Taylor. SHAKESPEARE'S OVID The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems EDITED BY A. B. TAYLOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems A. B. Taylor. SHAKESPEARE'S OVID The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems EDITED BY A. B. TAYLOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
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... poems / edited by A. B. Taylor . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0 521 77192 7 ( hardback ) 1. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 - Knowledge - Literature . 2. Ovid , 43 B.C.-A.D. 17 or 18. Metamorphoses . 3 ...
... poems / edited by A. B. Taylor . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0 521 77192 7 ( hardback ) 1. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 - Knowledge - Literature . 2. Ovid , 43 B.C.-A.D. 17 or 18. Metamorphoses . 3 ...
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... POEMS 3 . ' And love you ' gainst the nature of love ' : Ovid , rape , and The Two Gentlemen of Verona 49 William C. Carroll 4 . Animals in ' manly shape as too the outward showe ' : moralizing and metamorphosis in Titus Andronicus 66 ...
... POEMS 3 . ' And love you ' gainst the nature of love ' : Ovid , rape , and The Two Gentlemen of Verona 49 William C. Carroll 4 . Animals in ' manly shape as too the outward showe ' : moralizing and metamorphosis in Titus Andronicus 66 ...
Contents
the metamorphoses of Ovid | 15 |
Ovid renascent in Venus and Adonis and Hero | 31 |
Ovid rape | 49 |
Venus and Adonis and Ovidian indecorous wit | 81 |
Ovid Petrarch and Shakespeares Sonnets | 96 |
Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid | 113 |
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