"Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides, and The Winter's Tale"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc832/
Author:
	Brown, Sarah Annes.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Lafont, Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture, 139–52.
:
	Lafont, Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture
Annotation:
	Explores why Winter's Tale associates "statuaphilia--unnatural attraction to statues--and homosexuality" by analyzing how Shakespeare's allusion to Pygmalion's statue and its invocation of the idea of perfect womanhood work in context with Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Lafont, Agnès; Ovid
Keywords:
	Pygmalion; statue; homosexuality
Tags:
	Shakespeare's Sources and Influences on Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
WSB Update:
	Winter 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc832