{"product_id":"ovid-and-the-liberty-of-speech-in-shakespeares-england-9781108720717","title":"Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeares","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddressing early modern scholars, classicists, historians, literary critics and scholars of imitation and adaptation of all levels, this book reveals how the work of Ovid, poet-philosopher of literary innovation and the liberty of speech, catalysed the extraordinary rise of new and audacious poetic forms during the English Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a truly excellent study. I am not sure there is anyone else who has Heather James's particular combination of critical gifts: here we see reading and writing with great purpose and freshness, clear and flexible thinking shedding new light on well-known texts and connections, and a strong and original argument that proceeds so smoothly and generously that it changes your mind decisively almost without you realising it.' Raphael Lyne, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e'An erudite, pathbreaking achievement … Highly recommended.' N. Lukacher, Choice Connect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Flower power: political discontents in Spenser's flowerbeds; 2. Loving Ovid: Marlowe and the liberties of erotic elegy; 3. Shakespeare's Juliet: the Ovidian girlhood of the boy actor; 4. In pursuit of change: the Metamorphoses in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5. The trial of Ovid: Jonson's defense of poetic liberty.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019413553495,"sku":"9781108720717","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ovid-and-the-liberty-of-speech-in-shakespeares-england-9781108720717","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}