Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Golding, Arthur | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Bate, Jonathan. “Tragedy and Metamorphosis.” In Shakespeare and Ovid, pp. 171-214. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Focuses on Shakespeare's use of Ovid's in several tragedies, observing the influence of Golding's translation for particular words and phrases.

Blake, Harriet Manning. “Golding's Ovid in Elizabethan Times.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 14 (1915): 93-95.

Brief article discussing the influence of Golding's Metamorphosis on Renaissance poets including Nashe, Greene, Heywood, and Lyly.

Forey, Madeleine. “‘Bless Thee, Bottom, Bless Thee! Thou Art Translated!’: Ovid, Golding, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.Modern Language Review 93, no. 2 (April 1998): 321-29.

Considers Golding's moralizing preface to his Metamorphosis as an additional source for A Midsummer Night's Dream; compares the earl of...

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