Shakespeare's Ovid
Subtitle: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521771924
Subjects: Literary theory; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Roman influences; Literature; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William,; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Influence; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Shakespeare; Literary Criticism : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Metamorphoses; Ovid; English literature; Drama; 1564-1616; Knowledge; Metamorphosis in literature; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Ovid,
First sentence: In the middle of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (c. 1592) a mutilated woman chases a terrified schoolboy across the stage.