Shakespeare’s Sources

Since we’re talking about Shakespeare’s sources as texts themselves, could you tell us about the emergence of print culture and reading practices in Elizabethan England? Ovid is like Shakespeare as a poet; both possess extremely rapid wit and move magically and unpredictably on the surface of the text, from image to image and metaphor to metaphor. “Humans in extreme situations and transformation—those are the things I think Shakespeare loved about Ovid”

For example, in the midst of Pyramus and Thisbe (Met.

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