ENGL 425/525: Shakespeare and Ovid (Fall 2005)
Texts, all available at the Longwood University Bookstore:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, ed. David Bevington, fifth ed. (Longman, 2004). [ISBN:
032109333X]
[If you already have a good, annotated edition of Shakespeare's complete works, feel free to use it instead.]
Ovid, The Metamorphoses, trans. Charles Martin (Norton, 2004). [ISBN: 039332642X]
[If you already have a modern translation of the Metamorphoses, feel free to use it instead. If you've had Latin, I urge you to consult the original.]
Optional: Ovid, The Metamorphoses, trans. Arthur Golding, ed. Madeleine Forey (Johns Hopkins, 2001). [ISBN: 0801870607]
Ovid's version of Tarquin's rape of Lucretia, from the Fasti
Online resources:
An online facsimile of Golding's Ovid is available at the University of Pennsylvania. (The Forey edition is a modern-spelling edition that you will find much easier to read, but please look at this facsimile--it will give you a good idea of what Shakespeare was actually reading, in addition to the original Latin.)
The Ovid Collection at the University of Virginia
The Ovid Project: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English editions of Ovid