Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > The Golden Age Rescored?

Research

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

The Golden Age Rescored?: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Published

Standard

The Golden Age Rescored? Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages. / Oakley-Brown, Liz.
Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre. ed. / Lisa S. Starks. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. p. 221-237.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Harvard

Oakley-Brown, L 2020, The Golden Age Rescored? Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages. in LS Starks (ed.), Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 221-237. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430067.001.0001

APA

Oakley-Brown, L. (2020). The Golden Age Rescored? Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages. In L. S. Starks (Ed.), Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre (pp. 221-237). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430067.001.0001

Vancouver

Oakley-Brown L. The Golden Age Rescored? Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages. In Starks LS, editor, Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2020. p. 221-237 doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430067.001.0001

Author

Oakley-Brown, Liz. / The Golden Age Rescored? Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages. Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre. editor / Lisa S. Starks. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020. pp. 221-237

Bibtex

@inbook{01c30ed459f441a7a3a585dc76df4b37,
title = "The Golden Age Rescored?: Ovid{\textquoteright}s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood{\textquoteright}s The Ages",
abstract = "In 1908, Felix Emmanuel Schelling stated that Thomas Heywood {\textquoteleft}sat{\textquoteright} with a {\textquoteleft}copy of the Metamorphoses on his left hand and translated it into five plays, omitting little and extenuating nothing{\textquoteright}. However, Heywood{\textquoteright}s so-called Ages (1610-1612) – The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Brazen Age, The Iron Age (parts 1 and 2) – make no obvious non-verbal or verbal reference to Ovid{\textquoteright}s poem. This essay considers how the Ages{\textquoteright} fundamental engagement with the Metamorphoses is related to structure rather than mythic content itself and argues that the plays are Ovidian adaptations before-the-letter. If Ben Jonson conceived of The Golden Age Restor{\textquoteright}d (1615),these five plays are Heywood{\textquoteright}s golden age rescored.",
author = "Liz Oakley-Brown",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430067.001.0001",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781474430067",
pages = "221--237",
editor = "Starks, {Lisa S.}",
booktitle = "Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Golden Age Rescored?

T2 - Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Thomas Heywood’s The Ages

AU - Oakley-Brown, Liz

PY - 2020/12/1

Y1 - 2020/12/1

N2 - In 1908, Felix Emmanuel Schelling stated that Thomas Heywood ‘sat’ with a ‘copy of the Metamorphoses on his left hand and translated it into five plays, omitting little and extenuating nothing’. However, Heywood’s so-called Ages (1610-1612) – The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Brazen Age, The Iron Age (parts 1 and 2) – make no obvious non-verbal or verbal reference to Ovid’s poem. This essay considers how the Ages’ fundamental engagement with the Metamorphoses is related to structure rather than mythic content itself and argues that the plays are Ovidian adaptations before-the-letter. If Ben Jonson conceived of The Golden Age Restor’d (1615),these five plays are Heywood’s golden age rescored.

AB - In 1908, Felix Emmanuel Schelling stated that Thomas Heywood ‘sat’ with a ‘copy of the Metamorphoses on his left hand and translated it into five plays, omitting little and extenuating nothing’. However, Heywood’s so-called Ages (1610-1612) – The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Brazen Age, The Iron Age (parts 1 and 2) – make no obvious non-verbal or verbal reference to Ovid’s poem. This essay considers how the Ages’ fundamental engagement with the Metamorphoses is related to structure rather than mythic content itself and argues that the plays are Ovidian adaptations before-the-letter. If Ben Jonson conceived of The Golden Age Restor’d (1615),these five plays are Heywood’s golden age rescored.

U2 - 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430067.001.0001

DO - 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430067.001.0001

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9781474430067

SP - 221

EP - 237

BT - Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre

A2 - Starks, Lisa S.

PB - Edinburgh University Press

CY - Edinburgh

ER -