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The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose (Hardcover)
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The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose (Hardcover)
Series: British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
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The first English translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was the work
of William Caxton, not just England's first printer but also a
successful merchant, diplomat, and one of the most prolific
translators of the fifteenth century. Extremely popular in the late
Middle Ages, the stories in the Metamorphoses featured in works by
Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate. Caxton's translation, which survives
only in a single manuscript now in Magdalene College, Cambridge,
was made not from the original Latin but from a prose version of
the French Ovide moralise, a chivalric adaptation which includes
allegorical and historical interpretations of the fables as well as
additional classical tales. In the fifteenth century, Burgundian
chivalric taste influenced the proliferation of the prose romance,
and this genre was, in turn, sought as the height of English
literary fashion. The Booke of Ovyde is thus a perfect example of
how Caxton both reflected and influenced literary tastes of his
day. This critical edition, the first of the entire work, seeks to
encourage the study of Caxton's Ovyde, both as an example of the
late-medieval mise en prose and as a significant part of Caxton's
considerable oeuvre. It also serves as an entry point into the
complex textual tradition of medieval Ovidian commentaries.
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