Shakespeare and Ovid
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Book Overview
This book, by a leading Shakespeare scholar, 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198129548
ISBN13:9780198129547
Release Date:June 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:308 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"
Customer Reviews
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a beautiful work
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
With his usual clarity and lack of bias and hyperbole Bate shows Ovid's influence on WS. A useful index helps greatly in looking for that influence on specific works.
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