Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Subject "Ovid"
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Arachne in Marlowe’s ‘Ad amicam corruptam’ (Amores 2.5)
(Oxford University Press, 2018-09-20)When, at the close of the sixteenth century, Christopher Marlowe’s rendition of Amores 2.5 posthumously appeared in All Ovids Elegies (the earliest vernacular translation of this work to have been published in Europe and ... -
"The argument to the whole discourse" and other etiological tales in Turberville's epitaphes, epigrams, songs and sonets
(Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University (ACMRS), 2020-01-31)[No abstract available] -
The brief Ovidian career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian complaint
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)Calling attention to the Ovidian contours of Isabella Whitney s cursus litterarum, this essay reconsiders the literary heritage of the personae she adopts in The Copy of a Letter (c. 1566) and A Sweet Nosgay (1573). Existing ... -
Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique
(Amsterdam University Press, 2019-07-22)Louise Hollandine was an artist and student of internationally renowned Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst. Though relatively few works now survive that can be authoritatively ascribed to her, Louise Hollandine s artistic ... -
The Maid's Metamorphosis or The Metamorphoses of the Maid?
(Edward's Boys, King Edward VI School, 2024)Essay included in the 2024 theatre programme for The Maid's Metamorphosis performed by Edward's Boys, King Edward VI School. -
Oenone and Colin Clout
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-11)Spenser's Shepheardes Calender was still a new work, not even yet publicly acknowledged by its author, when George Peele made the rather surprising decision to co-opt its central character and reanimate Colin Clout onstage ... -
Ovidian retro-metamorphosis on the Elizabethan stage
(McMaster University Library Press and Becker Associates, 2018-11-02)Although Ovid dedicated his Metamorphoses to the subject of change, the vast majority of the corporeal alterations catalogued in this ancient Roman poem are singular, permanent transformations. In contrast, dramatists ... -
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-06-05)This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid s Metamorphoses in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ... -
Unsoiled soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity
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What’s in a blush? Constellating Aeneid 12.64–9 and Amores 2.5.33–40 in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity
(De Gruyter, 2020-09-07)[No abstract available] -
Why read the classics?
(The Irish Times, 1999-07-17)