Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre

Lisa Starks

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre

Lisa Starks

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474430081

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Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of Ovid

Applies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmediality
Uses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of Ovid
Focuses on the appropriations of Ovid" (as an umbrella term for "all things Ovidian") on the early modern English stage
Includes chapters on Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as other early modern dramatists

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
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Introduction: Representing “Ovids” on the Early Modern English Stage Lisa S Starks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Gender/Queer/Trans Studies and Ovidian Rhizomes
1 Queer Gender Informants in Ovid and Shakespeare Simone Chess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2 Women in Trees: Adapting Ovid for John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis (1589) Shannon Kelley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3 Queer Fidelity: Marlowe’s Ovid and the Staging of Desire in Dido, Queen of Carthage Daniel G. Lauby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4 “Let Rome in Tiber melt”: Hermaphroditic Transformation in Antonius and Antony and Cleopatra Deborah Uman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part II Ovidian Specters and Remnants
5 Ovid’s Ghosts: Lovesickness, Theatricality, and Ovidian Spectrality on the Early Modern English Stage Lisa S. Starks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6 Medea’s Afterlife: Encountering Ovid in The Tempest John S. Garrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7 Remnants of Virgil, Ovid, and Paul in Titus Andronicus Catherine Winiarski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part III Affect, Rhetoric, and Ovidian Appropriation
8 Power, Emotion, and Appropriation in Ovid’s Tristia and Shakespeare’s Henry V Jennifer Feather Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
9 Appropriating Ovid’s Tyrannical Raptures in Macbeth John D Staines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
10 Ovid and the Styles of Adaptation in The Two Gentlemen of Verona Goran Stanivukovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
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 Louise Geddes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
12 The Golden Age Rescored?: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages Liz Oakley-Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
13 “Materia conveniente modis”: Early Modern Dramatic Adaptations of Ovid Ed Gieskes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
14 Worse than Philomel, Worse than Actaeon: Hyperreal Ovid in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Jim Casey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 2 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474430081