The Influence of the Roman Poet Ovid on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Intertextual Parallels and Meta-Ovidian Tende

The project illustrates a discernable pattern within Shakespeare's canon that can arguably be compared to similar proclivities in the works of Ovid. Furthermore, given his undisputed affinity for Ovid and the nature of Elizabethan educational practices Shakespeare, over time, developed an Ovidian mindset.