Ovid and adaptation in early modern English theatre / edited by Lisa S. Starks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Starks-Estes, Lisa S., 1960- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Adaptations.

Ovid.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Sources.

Shakespeare, William.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--Sources.

English drama.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--Classical influences.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Did you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England? This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the 'Ovids' that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance. -- Publisher website.

Contents:

Introduction: Representing "Ovids" on the early modern English stage / Lisa S. Starks

I. Gender/queer/trans studies and Ovidian rhizomes

Queer gender informants in Ovid and Shakespeare / Simone Chess

Women in trees: adapting Ovid for John Lyly's Love's metamorphosis (1589) / Shannon Kelley

Queer fidelity: Marlowe's Ovid and the staging of desire in Dido, Queen of Carthage / Daniel G. Lauby

"Let Rome in Tiber melt": hermaphroditic transformation in Antonius and Antony and Cleopatra / Deborah Uman

II. Ovidian specters and remnants

Ovid's ghosts: lovesickness, theatricality, and Ovidian spectrality on the early modern English stage / Lisa S. Starks

Medea's afterlife: encountering Ovid in The tempest / John S. Garrison

Remnants of Virgil, Ovid, and Paul in Titus Andronicus / Catherine Winiarski

III. Affect, rhetoric, and Ovidian appropriation

Power, emotion, and appropriation in Ovid's Tristia and Shakespeare's Henry V / Jennifer Feather

Appropriating Ovid's tyrannical raptures in Macbeth / John D. Staines

Ovid and the styles of adaptation in The two gentlemen of Verona / Goran Stanivukovic

Ovid remixed: transmedial, rhizomatic, and hyperreal adaptations

"Truly, and very notably discharg'd": the metamorphosis of Pyramus and Thisbe and the place of appropriation on the early modern stage / Louise Geddes

The golden age rescored?: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood's The ages / Liz Oaklye-Brown

"Materia conveniente modis": early modern dramatic adaptations of Ovid / Ed Gieskes

Worse then Philomel, worse than Actaeon: hyperreal Ovid in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus / Jim Casey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781474430067

1474430066

OCLC:

1124301603