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.

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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.