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September 01 2022
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
. By Heather James. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2021
. x + 287 pp.
Andrew Hui
Andrew Hui is associate professor of humanities at Yale–NUS College, Singapore, and author of Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature (2016) and A Theory of the Aphorism (2019). He is at work on real and imaginary libraries. His article “The Soundscape of the Dying Pagan Gods in Milton’s Nativity Ode” appeared in the September 2017 issue of MLQ.
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 353–355.
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Andrew Hui; Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England. Modern Language Quarterly 1 September 2022; 83 (3): 353–355. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9791042
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