The influence of the Roman poet Ovid on Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream : intertextual parallels and meta-Ovidian tendencies / Dennis James Siler ; with a foreword by Gerald Stacy.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [©2010?]Description: 1 online resource (iv, 152 pages)Content type:- text
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- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Influence
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare, William)
- English literature -- Classical influences
- DRAMA -- Shakespeare
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare
- Literature
- English literature -- Classical influences
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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- PR2827 .S56 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-140) and index.
Translations and conflations in Midsummer night's dream -- Ovidian and meta-Ovidian -- Meta-Ovidianism within period staging practices.
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This study explains that Shakespeare's use of Ovidian text as source material produces an intrinsic theme when viewed through the scope of a writer whose primary aim was to provide his audience with a ""uniquely English"" dramatic product.
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