First performed in the 1580s, Love's Metamorphosis is widely
regarded as the most elegantly structured of Lyly's plays. The plot
looks back to the account of Erisichthon's punishment for the
desecration of Ceres' grove in Ovid's Metamorphosis, but the
Ovidian story is woven into a wider network of interests turning
upon aspects of love. A series of allusions to earlier Lylian
compositions allows the play to be viewed in terms of a continuum
of work, exploring the status of Cupid and the nature and extent of
his power. The play is notable for the articulate resistance
offered by the female characters towards the desires of their
lovers and the wishes of authority figures, while Protea, is of
particular interest to feminist criticism as a striking example of
a woman empowered rather than marginalised by the loss of her
virgin state. Revived towards the close of the sixteenth century,
the play is of importance to theatre historians in that it is the
only one of Lyly's comedies known to have passed from Paul's to a
different troupe. It is newly edited here from the sole early
witness, the quarto of 1601. -- .
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