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Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor e-book examines the historic and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry within the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so during the learn of a specific set of Ovidian narratives-namely, these about the protean heroines of the Heroides and Metamorphoses. within the past due medieval and Renaissance eras, Ovid’s poetry motivated the vernacular imaginations of authors starting from Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower to Isabella Whitney, William Shakespeare, and Michael Drayton. Ovid’s English protégés replicated and accelerated upon the Roman poet’s exact and regularly remarked ’bookishness’ of their personal diversifications of his works. targeting the postclassical discourses that Ovid’s poetry motivated, Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor booklet engages with vivid present debates concerning the ebook as fabric item because it explores the Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies that proficient the sixteenth-century production, replica, and illustration of books. extra, writer Lindsay Ann Reid’s discussions of Ovidianism supply substitute types for pondering the dynamics of reception, model, and imitatio. whereas there's a enormous physique of released paintings on Ovid and Chaucer in addition to at the ubiquitous Ovidianism of the 1590s, there was relatively little scholarship on Ovid’s reception among those eras. Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor booklet starts off to fill this hole among the a long time of Chaucer and Shakespeare through dedicating realization to the literature of the early Tudor period. In so doing, this ebook additionally contributes to present discussions surrounding medieval/Renaissance periodization.