Shakespeare and Ovid

by Jonathan Bate

Book Overview

This book, by a leading Shakespeare scholar, is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favorite poet, Ovid. Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare's works, identifying Ovid's presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies, but also in the Sonnets and mature tragedies. Demonstrating how profoundly creative Ovid's influence was, especially in his representations of myth, metamorphosis, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198129548
• ISBN13: 9780198129547
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

a beautiful work

With his usual clarity and lack of bias and hyperbole Bate shows Ovid's influence on WS. A useful index helps greatly in looking for that influence on specific works.