Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance Body 1
5. Part I: Identification and Desire
6. Ovidian Subjectivities in Early Modern Lyric: Identification and Desire in Petrarch and Louise Labé 21
7. Imagining Heterosexuality in the Epyllia 38
8. Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference: Female Same-Sex Desire in Ovid and Lyly 59
9. A Garden of Her Own: Marvell's Nymph and the Order of Nature 77
10. 'Male deformities': Narcissus and the Reformation of Courtly Manners in Cynthia's Revels 94
11. Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington's Ariosto 111
12. Part II: Speech, Voice, and Embodiment
13. Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys's Englished 'Narcissus and Echo' 129
14. The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser 155
15. Ovid and the Dilemma of the Cuckold in English Renaissance Drama 171
16. Part III: Textualization
17. Lyrical Wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne 191
18. Engendering Metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian Corpus 207
19. The Girl He Left Behind: Ovidian imitatio and the Body of Echo in Spenser's 'Epithalamion' 224
20. 'If that which is lost be not found': Monumental Bodies, Spectacular Bodies in The Winter's Tale 239
21. Afterword 260
22. CONTRIBUTORS 269
23. INDEX 273