Heather James

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781108487627
• ISBN-10: 1108487629
• Artikelnr.: 61484080

Autorenporträt

Heather James is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, and President of the Shakespeare Association of America, 2016¿2017.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Flower power: political discontents in Spenser's flowerbeds
2. Loving Ovid: Marlowe and the liberties of erotic elegy
3. Shakespeare's Juliet: the Ovidian girlhood of the boy actor
4. In pursuit of change: the Metamorphoses in A Midsummer Night's Dream
5. The trial of Ovid: Jonson's defense of poetic liberty.