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Shakespeare and Ovid
Contributor(s): Bate, Jonathan (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198183240     ISBN-13: 9780198183242
Publisher: Clarendon Press
OUR PRICE: $66.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 1994
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Annotation: Written by a leading Shakespeare scholar, this book is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favorite poet, Ovid. Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare's works, identifying Ovid's presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies,
but also in the Sonnets and mature tragedies. Demonstrating how profoundly creative Ovid's influence was, especially in his representations of myth, metamorphosis, and sexuality, this original and elegantly written study reveals Shakespeare as an extraordinarily sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth
and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nimble as his classical original.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.33
LCCN: 92039574
Lexile Measure: 1390(Not Available)
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.52" W x 8.52" L (0.98 lbs) 310 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Written by a leading Shakespeare scholar, this book is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favorite poet, Ovid. Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare's works, identifying Ovid's presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies,
but also in the Sonnets and mature tragedies. Demonstrating how profoundly creative Ovid's influence was, especially in his representations of myth, metamorphosis, and sexuality, this original and elegantly written study reveals Shakespeare as an extraordinarily sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth
and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nimble as his classical original.
 
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