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Woo, Seungjeung. “The Meaning of Metamorphoses through Mythic Reshape by Mary Zimmerman.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 43.1 (2017): 125-146. This paper examines how Mary Zimmerman appropriates and changes a canonical text, Ovid’s Metamorphoses into her own modern and feminist representation. In the theatrical aspect, she adapts the classical text and reshapes some stories in it using a feminist theatrical way, that is, giving the voice to women. She also modernizes the old stories by assigning the roles of narrators to women. This leads the audiences to contemplate upon the truth in human lives and the fixed stereotypes like myths in the society. It thus helps to understand them from different perspectives. Considering her theme, she is well known to deal with the modern case studies of abnormal personalities: those of neurosis, self-love, compulsive greed, incest, etc. She also presents the images and verbal message on the brilliant ideas about loss and change after painful experiences of love. In this right, Zimmerman, one of the cultural creative playwrights in the 1980-90s, found the modern myth which visualizes the contemporary society and embodies feminist ideas in the representation of concern for others and love in it. (Chosun University)