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Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre - by Lisa Starks (Paperback)
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- Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidApplies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmedialityUses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of OvidFocuses on the appropriations of "Ovid" (as an umbrella term for "all things Ovidian") on the early modern English stageIncludes chapters on Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as other early modern dramatistsDid you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England?
- About the Author: Lisa S. Starks is Professor of English at University of South Florida St. Petersburg.
- 296 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Shakespeare
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This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid.
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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, transmedialityUses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of OvidFocuses on the appropriations of "Ovid" (as an umbrella term for "all things Ovidian") on the early modern English stageIncludes 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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The first book to use adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of Ovid 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. Lisa S. Starks is Professor of English at University of South Florida St. Petersburg.Review Quotes
This spirited collection offers diverse views on the uptake and remediation of Ovid, from direct citation and allusion to structure, character, and style. Extending the critical purview to include such matters as queer gender informants, arborified women, sovereign power, and tyrannical rapture, the contributors expose the complex dimensions of Ovid's openness to derivation, his rhizomatic and dialogic modes of influence and his ongoing spectral presence as Renaissance texts are remixed in the present day.-- "Valerie Traub, co-editor of Ovidian Transversions: Iphis and Ianthe, 1350-1650 (EUP, 2019)"
Throughout the collection there is excellent analysis of texts and some very inventive readings and comparisons. [...] This volume offers a significant contribution to the field.--Sarah Carter, Nottingham Trent University "Translation and Literature"
About the Author
Lisa S. Starks is Professor of English at University of South Florida St. Petersburg. She has published essays and edited special issues on Shakespeare, cinema, Ovid, and related topics. Her book publications include Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema and The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory (coedited with Courtney Lehmann, Fairleigh Dickinson, 2002); and Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays: Transforming Ovid (Palgrave, 2014).