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- Title
Horses and Hermaphrodites: Metamorphoses in The Taming of the Shrew.
- Authors
Roberts, Jeanne Addison
- Abstract
Analysis the literary parallelism of the Ovidian literature "Metamorphoses" and William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Elevation and personification of animals as people; Significance of the use of induction or frame as device of distancing from the real world to a domain of instincts, romance, and supernatural possibility; Representation of the heroines, Katherina and Bianca, as exact opposites and sometimes with animal attributes; Association of women with horses in Shakespearean plays; Representations of hermaphroditism.
- Subjects
COMPARATIVE studies; DRAMATIC works of William Shakespeare; TAMING of the Shrew (Tale); ANTHROPOMORPHISM; PERSONIFICATION in literature; HORSES in literature; INTERSEXUALITY in literature
- Publication
Shakespeare Quarterly, 1983, Vol 34, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
0037-3222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2869831