Spenser and Ovid

Contents: Introduction Spenser's new Fasti: Ovidian strategies of protest in The Shepheardes Calender Epic idolatry and concupiscent romance in Book I of The Faerie Queene Ovid and the limitations of temperance in Book II of The Faerie Queene Unbinding love: Britomart's Ovidian inquest Vates profugus: love, exile and authority in the poems of 1595 Sors mea rupit opus: exile and the 1596 Faerie Queene Spenser, Ovid and political myth-making: Mutabilitie's challenge to the ideology of power Bibliography Index.