The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare

Abstract

This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline brilliantly reveals how Ovid's stories of violence and desire disturb Renaissance conceptions of authorship and what makes the difference between male and female experience. Acknowledgements -- 1. Pursuing Daphne -- 2. Medusa's mouth: body and voice in the Metamorphoses -- 3. Embodied voices: autobiography and fetishism in the Rime sparse -- 4. "Be not obsceane though wanton": Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalions image -- 5. "Poor instruments" and unspeakable events in The rape of Lucrece -- 6. "Your speak a language that I understand not": the rhetoric of animation in The winter's tale -- Notes -- Index.