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==Adaptations== *[[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] repeated the story of Baucis and Philemon in "The Miraculous Pitcher," a story in ''[[A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys]]'', 1851. *[[Jean de la Fontaine]]'s poem follows Ovid closely. *[[John Dryden]] translated Ovid's poem in 1693. *[[Jonathan Swift]] wrote a poem on the subject of Baucis and Philemon in 1709. *[[Joseph Haydn]] wrote a marionette opera ''[[Philemon und Baucis (Haydn)|Philemon und Baucis, oder Jupiters Reise auf die Erde]]'' in 1773. *Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of [[Faust Part Two|Goethe's ''Faust II'']] (1832). *[[Gogol]] wrote an ironic and bittersweet reworking of the legend in his 1835 [[novella]] ''[[The Old World Landowners]]''. *[[Charles Gounod]] wrote his ''[[opéra comique]] [[Philémon et Baucis]]'' in 1860. *The [[Lanchester Marionettes]] created a puppet show ''Philemon and Baucis'' in 1952<ref>{{cite book |date=1964 |last=Arnott |first=Peter D |title=Plays without people knowledge |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Indiana, USA |page=44 }}</ref> *One of the cities in [[Italo Calvino]]'s ''[[Invisible Cities]]'' (1972) is named after Baucis. *[[Charles Frazier]]'s novel, [[Cold Mountain (novel)|''Cold Mountain'']] (1997), ends with a reading of this myth. *Film director [[Károly Makk]] sets his film ''Philemon és Baucis'' during the Hungarian uprising of 1956. *Referenced by [[Shakespeare]] in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' when Don Pedro courts Hero for Claudio (2.1.95), and also in ''[[As You Like It]]'' by Jaques (3.3.7-8). *Australian writer [[Ursula Dubosarsky]] published a play for children, ''The Goose Who Was Nearly Cooked'', based on the story of Philemon and Baucis.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Philemon-Baucis-Children-Metamorphoses-ebook/dp/B00AA4F4HK/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1356852185&sr=1-6&keywords=dubosarsky|title=Philemon and Baucis: The Goose Who Was Nearly Cooked|first=Ursula|last=Dubosarsky|via=Amazon}}</ref> *Referenced in ''[[Nadja (novel)|Nadja]]'' by [[André Breton]]. *Referenced in [[Thom Gunn]]'s poem "Philemon and Baucis" in ''The Man with Night Sweats''. *[[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly|Barbey d'Aurevilly]] describes a couple as Philemon and Baucis in his short story "Happiness in Crime" from the collection ''[[Les Diaboliques (short story collection)|Les Diaboliques]]''. *The narrator in [[Max Frisch]]'s 1964 novel ''[[Gantenbein]]'' refers to the main characters as Baucis and Philemon for a whole chapter. *Philemon (and occasionally Baucis) is a central protagonist in [[Carl Jung]]'s revelatory text, the [[Red Book (Jung)|''Red Book'']]. *Referenced by [[Ezra Pound]] in the poem "The Tree" and in "Canto XC". *''[[The Overstory]]'' by [[Richard Powers]] makes several references to the story and to the idea of gods' traveling incognito. *British writer [[Jenn Ashworth]] echos the myth of Baucis and Philemon in her 2016 supernatural novel [https://jennashworth.co.uk/fell/ ''Fell''] * The myth is retold in the story ''Sawdust'' by [[Edward Carey (novelist)|Edward Carey]] in the anthology ''xo Orpheus'' (2013; <small> {{ISBN|978-0-14-312242-5}}), </small> edited by [[Kate Bernheimer]].
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