Title The influence of the Roman poet Ovid on Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream : intertextual parallels and meta-Ovidian tendencies / Dennis James Siler ; with a foreword by Gerald Stacy.

Publication Info.	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [[2010?]
	©2010?

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Description	1 online resource (iv, 152 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-140) and index.
Contents	Translations and conflations in Midsummer night's dream -- Ovidian and meta-Ovidian -- Meta-Ovidianism within period staging practices.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	This study explains that Shakespeare's use of Ovidian text as source material produces an intrinsic theme when viewed through the scope of a writer whose primary aim was to provide his audience with a ""uniquely English"" dramatic product.
Subject	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources.
	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Influence.
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. (OCoLC)fst01839763
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
	Midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare, William) (OCoLC)fst01356315
	English literature -- Classical influences.
	DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
	Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
	English literature -- Classical influences. (OCoLC)fst00912025
	Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
Genre/Form	Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
	Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Other Form:	Print version: Siler, Dennis J. (Dennis James). Influence of the Roman poet Ovid on Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [©2010?] 9780773436107 (DLC) 2010036384 (OCoLC)659762784
ISBN	9780773418554 (electronic bk.)
	0773418555 (electronic bk.)

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