Ovidian Bibliofictions And The Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines In Late Medieval And Renaissance England (Material Readings In Early Modern Culture)

Focusing on the postclassical discourses that Ovid's poetry stimulated, this study explores how Ovid's English protéges - including Isabella Whitney, William Shakespeare and Michael Drayton - replicated and expanded upon the Roman poet's distinctive and frequently remarked ?ookishness?in their own adaptations of his works. Reid analyzes how Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and representation of books, and provides alternative models for thinking about the dynamics of reception, adaptation, and imitatio.

• • Author: Dr Lindsay Ann Reid
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Aug 11, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 230 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409457354
• • ISBN-13: 9781409457350