Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays
Transforming Ovid
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About this book
Introduction
Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.
Keywords
novel poem poetry transformation William Shakespeare
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349927
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-46818-8
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-34992-7
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