General Bibliography

I.  Primary Texts
1.  Online Resources
2.  Renaissance and Modern Editions
II.  Critical Studies

 


  I.  Primary Texts

1.  Online Resources

Alciato's Book of Emblems: The Memorial Web Edition in Latin and English

16th-Century Renaissance English Literature

Bibliotheca Augustana, Hochschule Augsburg

BVH: Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes, Université François Rabelais, Tours

Brepols Library of Latin Texts Online

Early English Books Online

Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Glasgow University Emblem Website

The Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English, University of Toronto

Nachleben des Antiken Mythos, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Peacham: The Minerva Britanna Project (Middlebury College)

Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University

The Philological Museum, University of Birmingham

Renaissance Electronic Texts, University of Toronto

Renascence Editions

The Theoi Classical E-texts Library

 

2. Renaissance and Modern Editions

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Adlington, William.  See Apuleius.

Alberic of London (Albricus)Allegoriae poeticae.  Paris: Jean de Marnef, 1520.

Alciati, AndreaOmnia Andreae Alciati V. C. Emblemata (1531).  Antwerp : Christopher Plantin, 1574.  Emblem numbers for Alciati in A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology refer to Index Emblematicus, Andreas Alciatus, vol. 1, The Latin Emblems, ed. Peter M. Daly, with Virginia M. Callahan assisted by Simon Cuttler, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

Aneau, BarthélemyImagination Poëtique.  Lyons: Macé Bonhomme, 1552.

ApuleiusThe Xi Bookes of the Golden Asse … Translated by William Adlington (London, 1566), ed. S. Gaselee.  London: Heinemann, 1971 (1915).

Aratus.  Phaenomena. See Hyginus, Caius Julius, Fabulae, 1535.

Arnulf of Orleans.  “Arnolfo d’Orléans, un Cultore di Ovidio nel Secolo XII”, ed. Fausto Ghisalberti.  Memorie del Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 24 (1939), 157-234.

B

Bacon, Francis [Transl. by Arthur Gorges]The Wisedome of the Ancients.  London: John Bill, 1619.  Facsimile ed. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968.

Batman, StephenThe Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes.  London: Thomas Marshe, 1577 (STC 1583). Facsimile ed. New York: Garland, 1976.

Bersuire, Pierre (Petrus Berchorius)Reductorium morale, Bk. XV: Ovidius moralizatus, chapter i: De Formis figurisque deorum, ed. J. Engels.  Werkmateriaal 3, Utrecht: Instituut voor Laat Latijn der Rijksuniversiteit, 1966.

Bersuire, Pierre (Petrus Berchorius)Reductorium morale, Bk. XV, chapters ii-xv: Ovidius moralizatus, ed.  J. Engels.  Werkmateriaal 2, Utrecht: Instituut voor Laat Latijn der Rijksuniversiteit, 1962.

Boccaccio, GiovanniGenealogia Deorum Gentilium (1472), ed. Vincenzo Romano.  Bari: Laterza, 1951.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.  Bocace de la genealogie des dieux.  Paris: Philippe Le Noir, 1531.  Facsimile ed. New York: Garland, 1976.

Boccaccio, GiovanniForty-six Lives translated from Boccaccio’s De Claris Mulieribus by Henry Parker, Lord Morley, ed. Herbert G. Wright.  Oxford: Early English Text Society OS 214, Oxford University Press, 1970 (1943).

Boccaccio, GiovanniAmorous Fiammetta, Wherein is set down a catalogue of all and singular passions of Love and Jealousy … first written in Italian by Master John Boccace … and now done into English by B. Giovano.  London: Thomas Gubbin and Thomas Newman, 1587 (STC 3179).

BoethiusThe Consolation of Philosophy, transl. Patrick Gerard Walsh.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Cartari, Vincenzo. Imagines deorum qui ab antiques colebantur. Lyons: Étienne Michel, 1581.

Cartari, VincenzoLe Imagini  de i dei degli antichi (Venice, 1556), ed. Ginetta Auzzas, Federica Martignago, Manlio Pastore Stocchi and Paola Rigo.  Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 1996.

Cartari, Vincenzo. Images of the Gods of the Ancients: The First Italian Mythography, transl. and ed. John Mulryan. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012.

Cartari, VincenzoThe Fountaine of Ancient FictionDone out of Italian into English by Richard Linche, Gent. London: Adam Islip, 1599 (STC  4691). Facsimile eds. Amsterdan: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1973 and New York: Garland, 1976.

Caxton.  See Virgil.

Chapman, GeorgeChapman’s Homer, ed. Allardyce Nicoll, with a new preface by Gary Wills.  Princeton: Bollingen Series 41, Princeton University Press, 1998 (1956).

Christine de Pisan [Transl. by Stephen Scrope]The Epistle of Othea, ed. Curt F. Bühler, Early English Texts Society 264.  Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1970.

Churchyard, Thomas.  See Ovid, 1572.

Colonna, Francesco [Transl. by Jean Martin]. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Paris: Kerver, 1546), ed. Gilles Polizzi.  Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1994.

Colonna, Francesco.  See Dallington.

Colonna, FrancescoHypnerotomachia Poliphili.  The Strife of Love in a Dream, transl. by Joscelyn Godwin.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.

Conti, NataleMythologia (Venice, 1567).  Frankfurt: Andrea Wechel, 1584.

Conti, NataleNatale Conti’s Mythologiae, transl. and ed. John Mulryan and Steven Brown, 2 vols.  Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.

Combe, Thomas [Transl. of Guillaume de La Perrière]The Theater of fine devices, containing an hundred morall emblems. London: R. Field, 1614.

Combe, Thomas [Transl. of Guillaume de La Perrière]The Theater of Fine Devices (London, 1593), ed. Mary V. Silcox.  In The English Emblem Tradition, vol. 2, ed. Peter M. Daly.  Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Cooper, ThomasDictionarium Historicum & Poeticum propria locorum & Personarum vocabula breviter complectens. In Thesaurus Linguae Romanæ et Britannicæ.  London: Berthelet, 1565  (STC 5686).

Cornutus, AnnaeusCornuti Theologiae Graecae Compendium, ed. Karl Lang.  Leipzig: Teubner, 1881.

Cornutus, Annaeus.  Anneo Cornuto, Compendio di Teologia Greca, ed. Ilaria Ramelli.  Milan: Bompiani Il Pensioro Occidentale, 2003.

Corrozet, GillesHecatongraphie.  Paris: Denis Janot, 1543.  Facsimile ed. Alison Adams. Geneva: Droz, 1997.

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[Dallington, Robert]. R. DHypnerotomachia.  The Strife of Love in a Dreame.  London: Simon Waterson, 1592) [An incomplete adaptation of Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499)] (STC 5577). Facsimile ed. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969.

Dorat, JeanMythologicum, transl. and ed. Philip Ford.  Geneva: Droz, 2000.

Douglas, Gavin.  See Virgil, 1553.

E

Estienne, CharlesDictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum.  Paris: Jacques Stoer, 1596.  Facsimile ed.  New York: Garland, 1976.

F

Fairfax, Edward.  See Tasso, Torquato.

Fleming, Abraham.  See Virgil, 1589.

Fraunce, AbrahamThe Third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch: Entituled Amintas Dale.  London: Thomas Woodcock, 1592 (STC 11341).  Facsimile ed. New York: Garland, 1976.

Fulgentius.  De Vocum Antiquarum Interpretatione.  See Hyginus, Caius Julius.  Fabulae, 1535.

FulgentiusFabii Planciadis Fulgentii V. C. Opera. Accedunt Fabii Claudii Gordiani Fulgentii V. C. De Aetatibus Mundi et Hominis et S. Fulgentii Episcopi Super Thebaiden, ed. Rudolf Helm.  Stuttgart: Teubner, 1970 (1898).

FulgentiusFulgentius the Mythographer, transl. Leslie George Whitbread. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1971.

FulgentiusFulgence. Virgile dévoilé, ed. and transl. Étienne Wolff, followed by Pseudo-Fulgence, Sur la Thébaïde, Isidore de Séville, Étymologies (excerpts), Bernard Silvestre, Commentaire à Martianus Capella (preface), Boccace, Interprétation de la Comédie de Dante (excerpts), ed. and transl. Françoise Graziani and Étienne Wolff.  Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2009. See review.

Fulgentius.  Mythologiarum libri III.  See Hyginus, Caius Julius.  Fabulae, 1535.

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Giraldi, Lilio GregorioDe Deis Gentium, varia & multiplex Historia.  Basel: Oporin, 1548. Facsimile ed. New York: Garland, 1976.

Golding, Arthur.  See Ovid, 1967.

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Harington, Sir John.  See Virgil, 1604 .

Heywood, ThomasP. Ovidii Nasonis De Arte Amandi or The Art of Love.  See Ovid, 1598.

Homer.  See Chapman, George.

HyginusHygini Fabulae, ed. Mauricius SchmidtIena: Hermann Dufft, 1872.

Hyginus, Caius Julius.  Fabulae; Hyginus, Caius Julius. Poeticon Astronomicon; Palaephatus. De Fabulosis narrationibus; Fulgentius. Mythologiarum libri III; Fulgentius. De Vocum Antiquarum Interpretatione; Aratus. Phaenomena; Proclus. De Sphaera Libellus. Ed. Jacobus Micyllus (Jakob Moltzer).  Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1535. 

Hyginus, Caius Julius.  Poeticon Astronomicon.  See Hyginus, Caius Julius.  Fabulae, 1535.

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Isidore of SevilleThe Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, ed. Stephen A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A.  Beach and Oliver Berghof.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

 L

Liber de Natura DeorumVirginia Brown, ed., An Edition of an Anonymous Twelfth-Century Liber de Natura Deorum.  Mediaeval Studies (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada), 34 (1972).

Linche, Richard.  See Cartari.

M

MacrobiusCommentary on the Dream of Scipio, ed. and transl. William Harris Stahl.  New York, Columbia University Press, 1952.

MacrobiusThe Saturnalia, ed. and transl. Percival Vaughan Davies.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Mansion, Colard.  La Bible des Poëtes, Metamorphose [d’Ovide moralisée par Thomas Walleys et traduite par Colard Mansion] (A. Verard, Paris, 1493).  Online editions on Gallica website. 

Marlowe, Christopher.  See Ovid, 1595.

May, Thomas.  See Virgil, 1628.

N

North, ThomasThe Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes.  London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1579 (STC 20 065).

O

OvidShakespeare’s Ovid: Being Arthur Golding’s Translation of the Metamorphoses, ed. W. H. D. Rouse.  London: Centaur Press, 1961.

OvidOvid’s Metamorphoses Translated by Arthur Golding, ed. Madeleine Forey. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2002.

OvidThe heroycall Epistles of Pub. Ovidius Naso in Englishe verse, translated by George Turbervile.   London: Henry Denham, 1567 (STC 18939.5).

OvidThe Thre first bokes of Ovids De Tristibus, translated by Thomas Churchyard.  London: Thomas Marshe, 1572 (STC 18977aa).

OvidOvid his Invective against Ibis, translated by Thomas Underdown.  London: Henry Bynneman, 1577 (STC 18950).

OvidFabularum Ovidii interpretatio, ethica, physica et historica, tradita in Academia Regiomontana a Georgio Sabino.  Cambridge: Thomas Thomas, 1584 (STC 18951).

OvidAll Ovids Elegies: 3. Bookes.  By C. M. (Middlebourgh, c.1595?).  In  The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. Roma Gill, vol. 1.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

OvidThomas Heywood’s Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria [London, 1598], ed. M. L. Stapleton.  Ann Arbour, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, c. 2000.

OvidOvid his Remedie of Love, translated by F. L.  London: John Browne, 1600 (STC 18974).

OvidOvid’s Metamorphosis English’d, Mythologized and Represented in Figures, translated and commented by George Sandys, ed. Karl K. Hulley and Stanley T. Vandersall.   Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

OvidOvid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized and Represented in Figures, translated and commented by George Sandys (Oxford, 1632).  Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2008.

Ovide moralisé, poème du commencement du quatorzième siècle, ed. C. de Boer, 5 vols. Verhandelingen der Köninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Afdeeling Letterkunde.  Nieuwe Reeks, Deel XV, XXI, XXX 3, XXXVII, XLIII.  Vol 1 and 2, Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, 1915, 1920; vol. 3-5, Amsterdam: Uitgave van de N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevermaatschappij, 1931, 1936, 1938.

Ovide moralisé en prose, texte du quinzième siècle, ed. C. de Boer, Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel LXI, 2.   Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1954.

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Palaephatus.  De Fabulosis narrationibus. See Hyginus, Caius Julius.  Fabulae, 1535.

PalaephatusOn Unbelievable Tales, transl. and ed. Jacob Stern.  Wauconda, Il.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1996.

Palaephatus.  Palaephati scriptoris Graeci Opusculum De non Credendis Fabulosis narrationibus, Interprete Philippo Phasianino Bononiensi.  Bologna: Benedictus Hector (Benedetto Faeli), 1515.

Palingenio Stellato, Marcello [Transl. by Barnabe Googe]The Zodiake of life. London: R. Newberie, 1576.  Facsimile ed. Delmar, New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976 (1947).

Palmer, Thomas.  Two Hundred Poosees.  John Manning, ed., The Emblems of Thomas Palmer: Two Hundred Poosees/Sloane MS 3794.  New York: AMS, 1988.

Parker, Henry, Lord Morley.  See Boccaccio.

Peacham, Henry. Minerva Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Devises.  London: W. Dighe, 1612.  Facsimile ed. Menston: Scolar Press, 1973 (1969).

PetrarchPetrarch’s Africa, ed. and transl. Thomas G. Bergin and Alice S. Wilson.   New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977.

Phaer, Thomas.  See Virgil, 1584.

Pictor, GeorgTheologica mythologica.  Antwerp: apud Michaelem Hillerium, 1532.

Pictor, GeorgApotheseos tam exterarum gentium quam romanorum deorum libri tres. Basel, 1558.

Proclus.  De Sphaera Libellus. See Hyginus, Caius Julius.  Fabulae, 1535.

R

Reynolds, HenryMythomystes.  London: Henry Seyle, 1632.  Facsimile ed.  Menston: Scolar Press, 1972.

S

Sabinus, Georgius (George Schuler).  See Ovid, 1584.

Salutati, ColuccioDe Laboribus Herculis, ed. B. L. UllmanZurich: Thesauri Mundi, 1951.

Sandys, George.  See Ovid, 1632.

Scot, JohnIohannis Scottii Annotationes in Marcianum, ed. Cora E. Lutz.   Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1939.

SenecaSeneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh, ed. Thomas NewtonLondon: Thomas Marsh, 1581 (STC 22 221). Facsimile ed. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969.

Silvester of Tours, BernardCommentum Bernardi Silvestris super sex libros Eneidos Virgilii, ed. Wilhelm Riedel.  Greifswald: Julius Abel, 1924.

Silvester of Tours, BernardCommentary on the First Six Books of Virgil’s Aeneid, transl. and ed. Earl G. Schreiber and Thomas E. Maresca.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Surrey, Henry, Earl of.  See Virgil, 1557.

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Tasso, TorquatoGodfrey of Bulloigne or The Recoverie of Jerusalem, translated by Edward Fairfax.  London: J. Jaggard, 1600 (STC 23698 ).

Thenaud, Jehan. La Lignée de Saturne (BN Ms. Fr. 1358) suivi de La Lignée de Saturne ou le Traité de Science Poétique (BN Ms. Fr. 2081), ed. G. Mallary Masters.  Geneva: Droz, 1973.

Turbervile, George.  See Ovid, 1569.

Francis Thynne.  Emblemes and Epigrames. ed. F.J. Furnivall, Millwood, New York, Kraus Reprint Co, 1978 (Early English Text Society, Original series 64, 1876).

Twyne, Thomas.  See Virgil, 1584.

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Underdown, Thomas.  See Ovid, 1577.

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Vatican MythographersScriptores Rerum Mythicarum Latini Tres, ed. Georg Heinrich Bode.  Celle: E. H. C. Schulze, 1834.

Vatican MythographersThe Vatican Mythographers, ed. Ronald E. Pepin.  Fordham University Press, 2008.

Vatican MythographersPremier mythographe du Vatican, ed. Nevio Zorzetti, transl. Jacques Berlioz.  Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1995.

Vatican MythographersMythographe du Vatican I, ed. Philippe Dain and François Kerlégouan.  Besançon: Annales littéraires de l’Université de Besançon, 1995.

VirgilCaxton’s Eneydos 1490: Englished from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, ed. W. T. Culley and F. J. Furnivall.  The Early English Text Society E.S. 57.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962 (1890).

VirgilThe Xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill (London, 1553).  In  Gavin Douglas, The Poetical Works, vol. 2-4, ed. John Small.  Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1970 (1874).

VirgilCertain Bokes of Virgiles Aeneis turned into English by the right honorable lorde, Henry Earle of Surrey (London, 1557).  In Surrey: Poems, ed. Emrys Jones.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973 (1964).

VirgilThe Bucoliks of Publius Virgilius Maro, with alphabeticall annotations upon proper names of gods, goddesses, men, women, hilles, flouddes, cities, townes, and villages &c. orderly placed … Drawne into plaine and familiar Englishe, verse for verse by Abraham Fleming. Student.  London: Thomas Woodcock, 1575 (STC 24816).

VirgilThee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst.  Leyden: John Pates, 1582 (STC 24806).

VirgilThe Thirteene Bookes of the Aeneidos, translated by Thomas Phaer and Thomas Twyne.  London: W. How for A Veale, 1584 (STC 24802).

VirgilThe Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aeneid Translated and Commented by Sir John Harington (1604), ed. Simon Cauchi.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

VirgilVirgil’s Georgicks Englished by Thomas May.  London: Thomas Walkley, 1628 (STC 24824)

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Walsingham, Thomas. De Archana Deorum [early fifteenth century], ed. Robert A. van Kluyve.  Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1968.

Whitney, GeoffreyA Choice of Emblemes (Leyden, 1586).  Facsimile ed. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969.

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Young, Bartholomew.  See Boccaccio, 1587.

 

II. Critical Studies

 

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Adhémar, JeanInfluences antiques dans l’art du Moyen-Âge français.  Paris: Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1996 (London: Studies of the Warburg Institute, 1939).

Allen, Don CameronMysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970.

Anderson, D.  “Mythography or Historiography? The Interpretation of Theban Myths in Late Medieval Literature”.  Florilegium 8 (1986): 113-39.

Arasse, Daniel, edSymboles de la Renaissance, 2 vols.  Paris: Presses de l’École Normale Supérieure, 1976-1982.

Auger, Danièle and Delattre, Charles, eds. Mythe et fiction.  Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2010.

Aygon, Jean-Pierre; Bonnet, Corinne and Noacco, Cristina, edsLa Mythologie de l’Antiquité à la Modernité: Appropriation-Adaptation-Détournement.  Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009.

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Baldwin, T. WWilliam Shakspere’s Small Latine and Lesse Greeke, 2 vols.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1944.

Bardon, FrançoiseLe Portrait mythologique à la Cour de France sous Henri IV et Louis XIII.  Paris: Picard, 1974.

Barkan, LeonardThe Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Baruzzo, Barbara.  “‘Ten Little Fabulae’: Ovidian Tales of Love and Metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.  Cahiers Élisabéthains 45 (1994): 21-31.

Bate, JonathanShakespeare and Ovid.   Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Battles, DominiqueThe Medieval Tradition of Thebes: History and Narrative in the O. F. Roman de Thèbes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate.  New York: Routledge, 2004.

Bernardo, Aldo S. and Levin, Saul, edsThe Classics in the Middle Ages. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 69.  Binghamton, New York: 1990.

Binns, J. WIntellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age.  Leeds: Cairns, 1991.

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, RenateReading Myth: Classical Mythology and its Interpretation in Medieval French Literature. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Boas, F. SAspects of Classical Legend and History in Shakespeare.  London: Proceedings of the British Academy XXIX, 1943.

Boas, F. SOvid and the Elizabethans.  London: The English Association, 1947.

Bolgar, R. RThe Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977 (1954).

Bonnefoy, Yves, edDictionnaire des mythologies et des religions des sociétés traditionnelles et du monde antique, 2 vols.  Paris: Flammarion, 1981.

Bono, Barbara JLiterary Transvaluation: From Virgilian Hero to Shakespearean Tragicomedy.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Bosque, Andrée deMythologie et maniérisme, Italie-Bavière-Fontainebleau-Prague-Pays-Bas, Peintures et Dessins.  Anvers: Fonds Marcator and Paris: Albin Michel, 1985.

Braden, GordonThe Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies, Yale Studies in English 187.  New Haven, Yale University Press, 1978.

Brower, Reuben AHero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Greco-Roman Heroic Tradition.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Brown, Sarah AnnesThe Metamorphosis of Ovid from Chaucer to Ted Hughes.  London: Duckworth, 1999.

Brumble, H. DavidClassical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Brumble, H. David.  “Let Us Make Gods in Our Image: Greek Myth in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”.  In The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology, ed. Roger D. Woodard.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007: 407-24.

Brunel, Pierre, edDictionnaire des mythes littéraires.   Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1988.

Brunel, Pierre, edDictionnaire des mythes féminins.   Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 2002.

Bull, MalcolmThe Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art.  London: Allen Lane – Penguin Books, 2005.

Bush, Douglas.  “Notes on Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology”.  Philological Quarterly 6 (1927): 295-302.

Bush, DouglasMythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry.  New York: Norton, 1963 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1932).

C

Campangne, HervéMythologie et rhétorique aux XVe et XVIe siècles en France.  Paris: Champion, 1996.

Capodieci, Luisa and Ford, Philip, edsHomère à la Renaissance – Mythe et transfigurations.  Rome and Paris:  Académie de France à Rome / Somogy Editeur, 2011.

Casanova-Robin, HélèneDiane et Actéon: Éclats et reflets d’un mythe à la Renaissance et à l’âge baroque.  Paris: Champion, 2003.

Chance, Jane, edThe Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1990.

Chance, JaneMedieval Mythography from Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D.433-1177.   Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.

Chance, JaneThe Mythographic Chaucer.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Chastel, AndréArt et humanisme à Florence au temps de Laurent le Magnifique: Études sur la Renaissance et l’humanisme platonicien.  Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1959.

Chastel, AndréLa Crise de la Renaissance 1520-1600.  Geneva: Skira, 1968.

Chastel, AndréLe Mythe de la Renaissance 1420-1520.  Geneva: Skira, 1969.

Cinquemani, A. M.  “Henry Reynolds’ Mythomystes and the Continuity of Ancient Modes of Allegoresis in Seventeenth Century England”.  PMLA 85 (1970): 1041-49.

Cross, Gustav.  “Ovid Metamorphosed: Marston, Webster, and Nathaniel Lee”.  Notes and Queries 3 N. S. (1956): 224-25 and 508-09.

D

Demats, PauleFabula: Trois études de mythographie antique et médiévale.  Geneva: Droz, 1973.

Demerson, GuyLa Mythologie classique dans l’œuvre lyrique de la “Pléiade”.   Geneva: Droz, 1972.

Demerson, Guy. “‘Extraicts de Haulte Mythologie’: La mythologie classique dans les ‘mythologies pantagruélicques’ de Rabelais”. Cahiers de l’Association Internationale des Études Françaises 25 (1973): 227-45.

Demerson, Guy, edPoétiques de la métamorphose. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 1981.

Demerson, Guy.  “La mythologie des Hymnes”. In Autour des Hymnes de Ronsard, ed. Madeleine Lazard. Paris: Champion, 1984: 103-43.

Doebler, JohnShakespeare’s Speaking Pictures: Studies in Iconic Imagery. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.

E

Enterline, LynnThe Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

F

Fabre-Serris, JacquelineMythologie et littérature à Rome: la réécriture des mythes aux premiers siècles avant et après Jésus-Christ.  Lausanne: Payot, 1998.

Ford, PhilipDe Troie à Ithaque: Réception des épopées homériques à la Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 2007.

G

Garner, Barbara Carman.  “Francis Bacon, Natalis Comes and the Mythological Tradition”.  Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 33 (1970): 264-91.

Georgoudi, Stella and Vernant, Jean-Pierre, edsMythes grecs au figuré: de l’Antiquité au Baroque.  Paris: Gallimard, 1996.

Gombrich, E. HSymbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance.  London: Phaidon, 1972.

Gordon, D. JThe Renaissance Imagination: Essays and Lectures by D. J. Gordon, ed. Stephen Orgel.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Green, MandyMilton’s Ovidian Eve.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.

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