The influence of the Roman poet Ovid on Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream : intertextual parallels and meta-Ovidian tendencies / Dennis James Siler ; with a foreword by Gerald Stacy
Translations and conflations in Midsummer night's dream -- Ovidian and meta-Ovidian -- Meta-Ovidianism within period staging practices
Summary
This study explains that Shakespeare's use of Ovidian text as source material produces an intrinsic theme when viewed through the scope of a writer whose primary aim was to provide his audience with a ""uniquely English"" dramatic product
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-140) and index