CRITICISM

Baruzzo, Barbara. “‘Ten Little Fabulae’: Ovidian Tales of Love and Metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Cahiers Élisabéthains 45 (April 1994): 21-31.

Argues that Shakespeare assimilated ten tales from the Metamorphoses, weaving them implicitly or through verbal reference into A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Brunner, Theodore F. “The Function of the Simile in Ovid's Metamorphoses.” The Classical Journal 61, no. 1 (October 1965): 354-63.

Examines the kinds of similes Ovid uses with particular emphasis on his use of epic similes in the Metamorphoses.

DuRocher, Richard J. Milton and Ovid Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974, 241p.

Argues that Milton's Paradise Lost is inextricably tied to the Metamorphoses.

Galinsky, G. Karl. Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, 285p.

A scholarly study of the form and content of the Metamorphoses, defending it from judgments about its content and morality.

Gertz, SunHee Kim. “Echoes and Reflections of Enigmatic Beauty in Ovid and Marie de France.” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 73, no. 2 (April 1998): 372-96.

Focuses on the story of Narcissus and Echo in the Metamorphoses, comparing it to the Lai of Guigemar by Marie de France.

Gildenhard, Ingo, and Andrew Zissos. “Ovid's Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510): Echos of Oedipus.” American Journal of Philology 121, no. 1 (spring 2000): 129-47.

Argues for an intertextual connection between Ovid's tale of Narcissus and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus.

Keith, A. M. The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992, 164 p.

Close readings of several tales in the Metamorphoses.

Merrix, Robert P. “The Phaëton Allusion in Richard II: The search for Identity.” English Literary Renaissance 17, no. 3 (autumn 1987): 277-87.

Explores the relation between Ovid's account of the fall of Phaeton, and Shakespeare's use of that story in Richard II.

Myers, K. Sara. Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994, 206 p.

An examination of the Ovidian understanding of the roots of natural characteristics and phenomena.

Myers, Sara. “The Metamorphosis of a Poet: Recent Works on Ovid.” The Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999): 190-204.

A summary of recent Ovidian scholarship.

Nelson, Max. “Narcissus: Myth and Magic.” The Classical Journal 95, no. 4 (April-May 2000): 363-89.

Hypothesizes a ritual origin for Ovid's narrative of Narcissus' fixation upon himself.

Nizynska, Joanna. “Marsyas's Howl: The Myth of Marsyas in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Zbigniew Herbert's ‘Apollo and Marsyas’.” Comparative Literature 53 (spring 2001): 151-69.

Comparative analysis of Ovid's tale of Apollo and Marsyas and the poem on the same subject by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert.

Roe, John. “‘Upon Julia's Clothes’: Herrick, Ovid, and the Celebration of Innocence.” Review of English Studies 50 (New Series), no. 199 (1999): 350-58.

Explores Ovid's influence in the poetry of Robert Herrick.

Solodow, Joseph B. The World of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988, 278 p.

Argues that searching for structural unity in the Metamorphoses based on the juxtaposition of tales leads to frustration, but unity is achieved by the narrative presence.

Taylor, A. B. “Shakespeare Rewriting Ovid: Olivia's Interview with Viola and the Narcissus Myth.” Shakespeare Survey 50 (1997): 81-89.

Explores the role Ovid's story of Narcissus plays in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Additional coverage of the Metamorphoses and of Ovid's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Ancient Writers, Vol. 2; Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 1; Discovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists and Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 211; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 2; Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 2; and World Poets.