Shakespeare's Ovid
Author: A. B. Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0521030315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive examination of Shakespeare's use of Ovid's epic poem, Metamorphoses.
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Shakespeare and Ovid
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0198183240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid, examining the full range of Shakespeare's works.
Shakespeare's Ovid
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
Author: Lynn Enterline
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1139425749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female voice in the Metamorphoses, as well as early modern attempts at transgendered ventriloquism that are indebted to Ovid's work, she argues that Ovid's rhetoric of the body profoundly challenges Renaissance representations of authorship as well as conceptions about the difference between male and female experience. This vividly original book makes a vital contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England
Author: Heather James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-08
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108809022
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The range of poetic invention that occurred in Renaissance English literature was vast, from the lyric eroticism of the late sixteenth century to the rise of libertinism in the late seventeenth century. Heather James argues that Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of literary innovation and free speech, was the galvanizing force behind this extraordinary level of poetic creativity. Moving beyond mere topicality, she identifies the ingenuity, novelty and audacity of the period's poetry as the political inverse of censorship culture. Considering Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton and Wharton among many others, the book explains how free speech was extended into the growing domain of English letters, and thereby presents a new model of the relationship between early modern poetry and political philosophy.
Shakespeare's Ovid
Harmful Eloquence
Author: Michael L. Stapleton
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →M. L. Stapleton's Harmful Eloquence: Ovid's Amores from Antiquity to Shakespeare traces the influence of the early elegiac poetry of Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E.-17 C.E.) on European literature from 500-1600 C.E. The Amores served as a classical model for love poetry in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and were essential to the formation of fin' Amors, or "courtly love". Medieval Latin poets, the troubadours, Dante, Petrarch, and Shakespeare were all familiar with Ovid in his various forms, and all depended greatly upon his Amores in composing their cansos, canzoniere, and sonnets. Harmful Eloquence begins with a detailed analysis of the Amores themselves and their artistic unity. It moves on to explain the fragmentary transmission of the Amores fragments in the "Latin Anthology" and the cohesion of the fragments into the conventions of medieval Latin and troubadour "courtly love" poetry. Two subsequent chapters explain the use of the Amores, their narrator, and the conventions of "courtly love" in the poetry of both Dante and Petrarch. The final chapter concentrates on Shakespeare's reprocessing and parody of this material in his sonnets. Medievalists, classicists, and scholars of Renaissance studies will find Harmful Eloquence particularly engaging and useful. This work has received early praise for its Shakespearean content and is vital to scholars in this area. Stapleton's scholarship is both enjoyable and readable with a contemporary approach.
Venus and Adonis
How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0691210144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, under the title, "Ancient Strength: Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition"--Preface, page ix.
Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England
Author: Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1351913034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.
