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ENGL 501: Elizabethan Ovidianism 1 ENGL 501: Elizabethan Ovidianism Maggie Kilgour [email protected] Office: Arts 312 Office hours: Monday, 1:00-3:00, & by appointment Texts: On MyCourses: T.H., The fable of Ovid treting of Narcissus Thomas Lodge, Scillaes Metamorphosis Thomas Peend, The Pleasant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis Francis Beaumont, Salamacis and Hermaphroditus Petrarch, “Rime Sparse 23”; Donne, ‘Elegy 19”; selections from Wyatt, Surrey and Watson John Marston, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion’s Image Edmund Spenser, “Muiopotmos,” Faerie Queene 3, Mutabilitie Cantos Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander Ben Jonson, Poetaster, Chloridia John Milton, A Masque (Comus) John Weaver, Faunus and Melliflora Ordered from McGill Bookstore: Shakespeare, A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Oxford) Titus Andronicus (Oxford) Complete Sonnets and Poems (Oxford) Recommended (editions of Ovid for non-Latin readers): Metamorphoses, Howard Mandelbaum, trans. The Poems of Exile, Peter Green, trans. The Erotic Poems, Peter Green, trans. Ovid’s Fasti. Roman Holidays. Betty Nagle, trans. Heroides, Harold Isbell trans. More fun on MyCourses: Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris Marlowe, Amores Heather James, “Ovid and the Question of Politics in Early Modern England” On-line resources: You must consult the invaluable University of Virginia website for early editions (esp George Sandys’s 1632 translation;) and other exciting stuff: http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/index.html #Latin 2 For Arthur Golding’s translation: http://archive.org/stream/shakespearesovid00oviduoft#page/n9/mode/2up Helpful also is the on-line edition of Andreas Alciatus’s Emblemata: http://www.mun.ca/alciato/ English emblem books: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/emblem/books.html Requirements: 5 page research paper on an Ovidian myth (see list below), due January 30th (20%); participation (25%); final 20 page paper (55% due April 17th) As a seminar, this course depends on group participation. All students are expected to attend classes with copies of texts under discussion. SYLLABUS Jan 9 Introduction 16 T. H., The Fable of Ovid treting of Narcissus; Thomas Lodge, Scillaes Metamorphosis; Thomas Peend, The Pleasant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis; Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus; Petrarch, “Rime Sparse 23”; Donne, ‘Elegy 19”; Petrarch in England (Wyatt, Surrey, Watson) Recommended: Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris ; Sandys’s commentaries on Narcissus and Echo, Hermaphroditus 23 John Marston, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion’s Image; Edmund Spenser, “Muiopotmos” 30 Spenser, Faerie Queene 3 Feb 6 Faerie Queene 3 13 Spenser, Mutabilitie Cantos; Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis 20 Venus and Adonis; Rape of Lucrece 27 Marlowe (and Chapman), Hero and Leander Recommended: Marlowe’s Amores READING WEEK March 14 Midsummer Night’s Dream 21 Titus Andronicus 28 Titus 3 April 3 Jonson, Chloridia; Poetaster 10 John Weever, Faunus and Melliflora ; Milton, Comus Books on Reserve (see also bibliography on Virginia website): Bate, Jonathan. Shakespeare and Ovid. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. Barkan, Leonard. The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986. Braden, Gordon. The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978 Bull, Malcolm. The Mirror of the Gods. How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005 Donno, Elizabeth Story. Elizabethan Minor Epics. New York: Columbia UP, 1963 Dubrow, Heather. Captive Victors: Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems and Sonnets. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987 Greene, Thomas. The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982 Hardie, Philip, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. ----------and Alessandro Barchiesi, and Stephen Hinds (eds.), Ovidian Transformations: Essays on the Metamorphoses and its Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1999 Hinds, Stephen. Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 Hulse, Clark. Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981 James, Heather. Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 Kahn, Coppélia. Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women. New York: Routledge, 1997 Keach, William. Elizabethan Erotic Narratives: Irony and Pathos in the Ovidian Poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Their Contemporaries. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1997 Kilgour, Maggie. Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012 Lyne, Raphael. Ovid’s Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses, 1567-1632. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001 Mack, Peter. Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 Martindale, Charles. Shakespeare and the Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988 ----- Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception, Roman Literature and its Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 ------- and A.B. Taylor, eds. Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988 Moore, Helen, and Philip Hardie, eds. Classical Literary Careers and their Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pearcy, Lee T. The Mediated Muse: English Translations of Ovid, 1560-1700. Hamden, Ct.: Archon, 1984 Pugh, Syrithe. Spenser and Ovid. Aldershot: Ashgate Pub, 2004 4 Stapleton, M.L.. Harmful Eloquence: Ovid’s Amores from Antiquity to Shakespeare. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996 Taylor, A.B., ed. Shakespeare’s Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000 Wind, Edgar. Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. New York: Norton, 1968 rpt Note: McGILL UNIVERSITY VALUES ACADEMIC INTEGRITY. THEREFORE ALL STUDENTS MUST UNDERSTAND THE MEANING AND CONSEQUENCES OF CHEATING, PLAGIARISM AND OTHER ACADEMIC OFFENCES UNDER THE CODE OF STUDENT CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information). 5 Assignment # 1, 5 pages: Summarize succinctly the role of one of the stories listed below in Ovid. Find 3 uses of your myth (this may include interpretations in Sandys’s or another mythographer, but must include at least one literary or pictorial rendition not discussed in class), and suggest how the story was read and employed in the Renaissance. Narcissus Hermaphroditus Scylla (Meta 13-4) Pygmalion Arachne Phaethon Actaeon Lucrece Philomela Flora Circe Daphne Marsyas Medusa Niobe The giants Io Myrrha Cadmus Venus and Mars Proserpina Cephalus and Procris Daedalus Baucis and Philemon Meleager Orpheus Glaucus .
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