Elizabethan erotic narratives : irony and pathos in the Ovidian poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries
Print Book, English, ©1977
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©1977
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813508306, 9780855273699, 0813508304, 0855273690
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I. Exploration and achievement in the Elizabethan Epyllion : Ovid and "Ovidian" poetry ; Glaucus and Scilla ; Venus and Adonis ; Hero and Leander
II. The epyllion and late Elizabethan satire : Mythological parodies and satirical attacks on lust and erotic poetry ; The metamorphosis of Pigmalion's image ; Faunus and Melliflora ; Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Conclusion : The epyllion and the poetry of the 1590s
alternatives to the Spenserian synthesis