Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.
Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.
Susan Wiseman is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Conspiracy and Virtue: Women, Writing, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (2006), Politics and Drama in the English Civil War (1998) and Aphra Behn (1996; 2nd edition, 2007). She has co-edited The Nice Valour for Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (2007).
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Introduction: writing metamorphosis 1. Classical transformation: turning Metamorphoses 2. Sacred transformations: animal events 3. Transforming nature: strange fish and monsters 4. Metamorphosis and civility: werewolves in politics, print and parish 5. Transformation rewritten? Extreme nurture, wild children Coda: Descartes and the disciplines.
