Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature 3
5. Authority and Embodiment
6. Ovid's Orpheus and the Soft Masculinity of English Poetics 23
7. Abject Authorship: A Portrait of the Artist in Ovid and His Renaissance Imitators 48
8. Ovid in Love and War: Pacifist Masculinity in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis 68
9. The Faerie Queene's Muses: “Hermaphrodites,„ Masculine Education, and Inspiration 86
10. Sexuality and Desire
11. The Birth of Tragedy: Milton, Ovidian Masculinity, and Poliziano's Orfeo 109
12. Ovid and Unheroic Masculinity in the Prose Romance of the English Renaissance 129
13. After Ovid's Sappho: Muteness Envy, Female Masculinity, and the Ethics of Mutability 151
14. Maturation of Youth
15. “Of Youth and Age„: Ovid and Generational Masculinities in Ben Jonson's Poetaster (1602) 179
16. Making a Politic Gentleman: The First Ars amatoria in English 202
17. Boys to Men: Fashioning Masculinity and Parody in the Ovidian Epyllia 223
18. The Body and Religion
19. The Uncooked Goose: Ovid's Philemon, Milton's Adam, and the Transformation of Hospitable Manliness 245
20. Ovid's Proteus and the Figure of the Male Jew in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta 267
21. Envoy 287
22. Contributors 303
23. Index 307