Shakespeare and Ovid
By: Jonathan Bate.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Influence; English literature -- Roman influences; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Metamorphosis in literature; Rome in literature
Description: "Jonathan Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare's work, identifying Ovid's presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies, but also in the Sonnets and mature tragedies. He shows how profoundly creative Ovid's influence was, from the raped Lavinia's turning of the pages of the Metamorphoses in Titus Andronicus, and the staging of Pyramus and Thisbe in A midsummer night's dream, to the reanimation of Hermione's statue in The winter's tale and Prospero's renunciation of his magic in The tempest"--Cover, p. [4].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-283) and index.