Ovid And the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England

In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses-a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels-as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.

Liz Oakley-Brown is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.