Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems Book

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 Peyré;
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 François 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.