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Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
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A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected
Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare
to Ovid is a major and important topic in scholarship. This book
offers a fresh approach to the subject, in aiming to account for
the Middle English literary lenses through which Shakespeare and
his contemporaries often approached Greco-Roman mythology. Drawing
its principal examples from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming
of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Lucrece, and Twelfth Night, it
reinvestigates a selection of moments in Shakespeare's works that
have been widely identified in previous criticism as "Ovidian",
scrutinising their literary alchemy with an eye to uncovering how
ostensibly classical references may be haunted by the
under-acknowledged, spectral presences of medieval intertexts and
traditions. Its central concern is the mutual hauntings of Ovid,
Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Gower in the early modern literary
imagination; it demonstrates that "Ovidian" allusions to
mythological figures such as Ariadne, Philomela, or Narcissus in
Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works were sometimes
simultaneously mediated by the hermeneutic and affective legacies
of earlier vernacular texts,including The Legend of Good Women,
Troilus and Criseyde, and the Confessio Amantis. LINDSAY ANN REID
is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland,
Galway.
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