Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval

A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.

List of contents

Introduction
Chaucer's Ghoast, Ovid's 'Pleasant Fables', and the Spectre of Gower
Shakespeare's Ovid and Sly's Chaucer
Theseus and Ariadne [and her Sister]
Philomela and the Dread of Dawn
The Cross-Dressed Narcissus
Afterword
Appendix 1: The Gowerian Riddles of Chaucer's Ghoast
Appendix 2: Ariadne's Desertion in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence
Bibliography

About the author

Lindsay Ann Reid

Product details

• Authors: Lindsay Ann Reid
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781843845188
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-518-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat; Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Mittelenglisch, Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker