Acknowledgements -- 1. Pursuing Daphne -- 2. Medusa's mouth: body and voice in the Metamorphoses -- 3. Embodied voices: autobiography and fetishism in the Rime sparse -- 4. "Be not obsceane though wanton": Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalions image -- 5. "Poor instruments" and unspeakable events in The rape of Lucrece -- 6. "Your speak a language that I understand not": the rhetoric of animation in The winter's tale -- Notes -- Index