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- Title
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor Balladry.
- Authors
Reid, Lindsay Ann
- Abstract
This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ancient Roman source into the stuff of vernacular song—a phenomenon that can be traced back as far as 1552. Positing that popular music must have played a crucial role in shaping Tudor ideas about the "Metamorphoses," this study draws attention to the textual, visual, aural, and kinetic dimensions of the Ovidiana that was regularly read, seen, heard, sung, and even danced to by early modern consumers of mythological ballads.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ENGLAND; METAMORPHOSES (Book : Ovid); ENGLISH ballads; ENGLISH translations of Latin literature; TUDOR Period, Great Britain, 1485-1603; CLASSICAL influences on English literature; ENGLISH music; MUSIC history
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2019, Vol 72, Issue 2, p537
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2019.3