Metamorphoses

This great work of the pagan poet, called The Metamorphoses, is not only the most curious and valuable record extant of ancient mythology, but some have thought they discovered, in every story it contains, a moral allegory; while others have attempted to trace in it the whole history of the Old Testament, and types of the miracles and sufferings of our Savior.

Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

His surviving poems are all written in elegiac couplets, with the exception of the Metamorphoses, which is in hexameters.

Letter 56 1793

Other poets whose works inspired Dante were Homer (who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey), Ovid (who wrote the collection of poetic books called Metamorphoses), Giovanni Boccaccio (who wrote the collection of books called Decameron), Statius (who wrote the collection of poetic books called Thebiad) and Aristotle (who wrote two collections called Nicomachean Ethics and Physics).

jfloydking Diary Entry jfloydking 2005

Informed by Ovid's poignant myths of human transformation, Zimmerman's "Metamorphoses" was an achievement of far more luminous emotionality than her "Arabian Nights."

Weaving a web of seductive stories Peter Marks 2011

In episodic structure and playful use of anachronism, the piece prefigures what has become her most famous show, "Metamorphoses," an adaptation of the stories of the Roman poet Ovid that was performed in a shallow pool and, on Broadway, won her a Tony for best director in 2002.

Weaving a web of seductive stories Peter Marks 2011

Actor Erik Lochtefeld, a longtime Zimmerman collaborator who performed in "Metamorphoses" and appears in "Candide", agrees.

An acclaimed director leaps into the musical world with 'Candide' Celia Wren 2010

Zimmerman built up name recognition after "Metamorphoses" opened at New York's Second Stage Theatre in October 2001.

An acclaimed director leaps into the musical world with 'Candide' Celia Wren 2010

But before her " Metamorphoses " got to Broadway, it was created and nurtured in the Chicago theater community.

Each Time They Roam, Chicago Calls Them Home Joel Henning 2010

Now Mary Zimmerman, whose "Metamorphoses" hit big in 2002, has taken up the challenge, concocting a new version of "Candide" co-produced by Chicago's Goodman Theatre and the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C., where I saw it last week.

Taking Another Shot at 'Candide' Terry Teachout 2010

A 1998 winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, she nabbed a 2002 Tony Award for "Metamorphoses," which conjured Ovid's tales around an onstage pool.

An acclaimed director leaps into the musical world with 'Candide' Celia Wren 2010