Sarah Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK, teaching predominantly in early modern literature and gender/sexuality. Previous research includes the exploration of the reception of Ovid in the period which produced several articles and a monograph, Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature (2011). 

1. Chapter One: Early modern intertextuality: post structuralism, narrative systems, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.- 2. Chapter Two: Allegory, Structuralism, and Intertextuality: Sir Francis Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients.- 3. Chapter Three: Folklore as a narrative system: old wives, seasonal cycles, and culture wars.- 4. Chapter Four: Parody and Intertextuality: the Ovidian epyllia.- 5. Chapter Five: Intertextuality and Satire: Ben Jonson's Poetaster.- 6. Chapter Six: Chapter Six: Text, Intertext, Hypertext?.-