By Jonathan Bate

ISBN-10: 0198129548

ISBN-13: 9780198129547

ISBN-10: 0198183240

ISBN-13: 9780198183242

This publication, via a number one Shakespeare student, is the 1st accomplished account of the connection among Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid. Bate examines the complete variety of Shakespeare's works, deciding on Ovid's presence not just within the narrative poems and pastoral comedies, but in addition within the Sonnets and mature tragedies. Demonstrating how profoundly inventive Ovid's impression used to be, in particular in his representations of fantasy, metamorphosis, and sexuality, this unique and skillfully written examine unearths Shakespeare as a very refined reader of Ovidian fable and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nimble as his classical original.

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