1st Edition
The Agonist, the Lover and the Poet An Intertextual Study across Virgil, Ovid and Shakespeare
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Virgil’s fulva harena; 2 Heroes, Lovers, and Poets in Georgics 3; 3 Fulva harena in the Aeneid; 4 The Woman’s Perspective: Ovid’s Single Heroides; 5 Fulvae harenae in the Metamorphoses; 6 The Paired Heroides: Ovid’s Hero and Leander; 7 The fulva harena Complex in Ovid’s Exile Poetry; 8 Venus and Adonis; 9 A Midsummer Night’s Dream; 10 The Tempest; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Fulva harena Passages in Virgil and Ovid; Appendix 2: Elizabethan Translations of Passages in Virgil and Ovid; Works Cited; Index locorum; Name Index
Biography
Elisabetta Tarantino (currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford) is the author and editor of books and articles on various literary subjects, with an emphasis on Shakespeare and on (inter)textual devices.
