Download or read book The Protean Ass written by Robert H. F. Carver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries.