Christopher Sly, who slumbers drunkenly through the first “Induction” scene of William
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, wakes in the second scene into an experience of …

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 …

The essay discusses the wider significance of Innogen's bedside reading in Cymbeline.
When Giacomo enters her bedchamber in Act 2 Scene 2, the audience learns that she has …

This project examines how virginity was conceptualized through metaphor and used as a
metaphor in early modern drama. It posits that the relationship between virginity and …

In my poetic sequence 'Whoa!'I rendered Ovid's tale of Phaethon as an allegory of global
warming. Early in his Metamorphoses (Books 1 and 2), Ovid tells how the illegitimate son of …

Sonho de uma Noite de Verão (c. 1595) é amplamente considerada a mais ovidiana das
peças de Shakespeare. Em seu enredo secundário, Peter Quince e um grupo de atores …

This special issue is dedicated to Chaucerian resonances in early modern drama. It is
therefore useful to begin by posing the question: what is Chaucerian resonance? In a work …

A victorious general returns from war and conquest with the militant queen of his enemies as
his prisoner only to become embroiled in a dispute between two sons fighting over their …

When William Shakespeare, an author considerably separated in time and space from
imperial Rome, sought to recreate (in particularly nightmarish form) this distant milieu for …

Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1382–86) revolves around the sexual conduct
of women in a martial society, most significantly, for the narrative's avenging Greeks, the …