Date:1603
Description:Stories for references in Shakespeare. Shakespeare's reading, and school memories of Ovid gave him not only references for stories that he could use, but names such as Phoebe, which occurs in the story of Diana and Acteon, could be adopted for characters in his plays. See: As You Like It, Phoebe 2,4, line 40; and 3,5, lines 1-80. Full title: Publius Ovidius Naso, The XV [15] bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, entituled Metamorphosis. Translated out of Latine into English meeter, by Arthur Golding, Imprinted at London by W. W[hite], 1603.
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