Additional reading and abbreviations

Here is a list of other reading that you might find useful with abbrevations that I have used in the blog. This list will inevitably grow!

Other authors:
Ovid                    Metamorphoses 
                            (trans D. Raeburn, Penguin, 2004)

Golding, A           Ovid's Metamorphoses: the Arthur Golding translation of 1567
                           (Simon and Schuster, 2000)


Abbreviations of Shakespeare's works (all Arden editions, 2nd series unless otherwise specified)
 A&C                  Antony and Cleopatra
Cymb                         Cymbeline
Luc                             Lucrece
R&J                    Romeo and Juliet
V&A                   Venus and Adonis in Narrative Poems
MV                             The Mercant of Venice

Other books of intrest
Clark, S                      Amorous Rites: Elizabethan Erotic Verse
                                   (Everyman, 1994)
                                   This is my preferred edition of use for Marlowe's Hero and Leander.
                                   As well as a useful intro and chronology of the poets, it also has:
                                   Thomas Lodge: Scylla's Metamorphosis
                                   WS: Venus and Adonis
                                   Francis Beaumont: Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
                                   John Marston: The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image