Heather James (University of Southern California)

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing early modern scholars, classicists, historians, literary critics and scholars of imitation and adaptation of all levels, this book reveals how the work of Ovid, poet-philosopher of literary innovation and the liberty of speech, catalysed the extraordinary rise of new and audacious poetic forms during the English Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781108720717
• ISBN-10: 1108720714
• Artikelnr.: 67655110

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.