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Notes on contributors List of abbreviations and note on the text Introduction Part I. The Background to Shakespeare's Ovid: 1. Myths exploited: the metamorphoses of Ovid in early Elizabethan England Robert Maslen 2. Ovid 'renascent' in Venus and Adonis and Hero and Leander John Roe Part II. The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems: 3. 'And love you 'gainst the nature of love': Ovid, rape, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona William C. Carroll 4. Animals in 'manly shape as too the outward showe': moralizing and metamorphosis in Titus Andronicus A. B. Taylor 5. Venus and Adonis and Ovidian indecorous wit Pauline Kiernan 6. Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare's Sonnets Gordon Braden 7. Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid Niall Rudd 8. Niobe and the Nemean Lion: reading Hamlet in the light of Ovid's Metamorphoses Yves Peyre 9. The Winter's Tale: Ovid transformed A. D. Nuttall 10. Ovid, Golding, and the 'rough magic' of The Tempest Raphael Lyne 11. Ovidian v(o)ices in Marlowe and Shakespeare: the Actaeon variations Francois Laroque Part III. Shakespeare's Ovid in the Twentieth Century: 12. Shakespeare's Ovid in the twentieth century: a critical survey John Velz List of works cited 13. Shakespeare's Ovid, Ovid's Shakespeare: a methodological postscript Charles Martindale Index.

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