SOURCE: Lyne, Raphael. “Ovid, Golding, and the ‘Rough Magic’ of The Tempest.” In Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems, edited by A. B. Taylor, pp. 150-64. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
In the following essay, Lyne discusses Shakespeare's use of Ovid in The Tempest, distinguishing between imitation and allusion as modes of adapting his stories. Lyne reads The Tempest as intertextual dialogue, not only between Shakespeare and Ovid, but also including Golding as translator.
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