Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken, Editors Edinburgh University Press 2019 Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses […]