BATE:SHAKESPEARE & OVID CP PAPER (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
Author: BATE, Jonathan
Color: Blue
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Pages: 464
EAN: 0000198183240
Release Date: 20-10-1994
Languages: English
Binding: paperback
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Details: 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.