Erotic, elegant, violent and magical, this dramatisation of Tales from Ovid realises the immense power of Hughes's original text, which is already recognised as a literary landmark. Tim Supple and Simon Reade have taken ten tales from Hughes's version of the greatest poem of classical inspiration and transformed them for the stage. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. Ted Hughes's remarkable sequence of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 and was celebrated in The Times by Michael Hofmann as 'one of the great works of the century'. This is a published volume of Tales from Ovid, with some minor annotations and corrections in Ted Hughes’s own hand. Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes masterful versions of stories from Ovids Metamorphoses, includes those of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe as well as many others. Erotic, elegant, violent and magical, this dramatisation of Tales from Ovid realises the immense power of Hug.

Many of the stories are violent, and depict love as both a beautiful and an. Tales from Ovid, like the original work from which it is drawn, has two major themes change, or metamorphosis, and love.

Tim Supple and Simon Reade have taken ten tales from Hughes's version of the greatest poem of classical inspiration and transformed them for the stage. Ovids Metamorphoses is the only ancient book that matches the Odyssey for poetic charm and narrative power. Tales from Ovid takes this behemoth work of 250 myths and cuts it down by one-tenth, sharing Hughes' favorite sections in a new work of translation. Ted Hughes's remarkable sequence of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 and was celebrated in The Times by Michael Hofmann as 'one of the great works of the century'.

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