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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starks, Lisa, Author.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English drama.

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

Ovid.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Sources.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Permissions

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Representing “Ovids” on the Early Modern English Stage

Part I. Gender/Queer/Trans Studies and Ovidian Rhizomes

1 Queer Gender Informants in Ovid and Shakespeare

2 Women in Trees: Adapting Ovid for John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis (1589)

3 Queer Fidelity: Marlowe’s Ovid and the Staging of Desire in Dido, Queen of Carthage

4 “Let Rome in Tiber melt”: Hermaphroditic Transformation in Antonius and Antony and Cleopatra

Part II Ovidian Specters and Remnants

5 Ovid’s Ghosts: Lovesickness, Theatricality, and Ovidian Spectrality on the Early Modern English Stage

6 Medea’s Afterlife: Encountering Ovid in The Tempest

7 Remnants of Virgil, Ovid, and Paul in Titus Andronicus

Part III Affect, Rhetoric, and Ovidian Appropriation

8 Power, Emotion, and Appropriation in Ovid’s Tristia and Shakespeare’s Henry V

9 Appropriating Ovid’s Tyrannical Raptures in Macbeth

10 Ovid and the Styles of Adaptation in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Part IV Ovid Remixed: Transmedial, Rhizomatic, and Hyperreal Adaptations

11 “Truly, and very notably discharg’d”: The Metamorphosis of Pyramus and Thisbe and the Place of Appropriation on the Early Modern Stage

12 The Golden Age Rescored?: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages

13 “Materia conveniente modis”: Early Modern Dramatic Adaptations of Ovid

14 Worse than Philomel, Worse than Actaeon: Hyperreal Ovid in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7697-X

1-4744-3008-2

OCLC:

1312726348