Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare

This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid''s Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and erotic life. Paying close...