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Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage Lisa Hopkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- Author.
- Series:
- Late Tudor and Stuart drama.
- Late Tudor and Stuart drama
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frühneuenglisch.
- Trojans in literature.
- Mythology, Greek, in literature.
- Literature.
- Greeks in literature.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- English drama.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- Greece.
- Greece--In literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 234 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2020]
- Summary:
- No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking not only at plays actually set in Greece or Troy but also those which draw on characters and motifs from Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Texts covered include Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and The Tempest as well as plays by other authors of the period including Marlowe, Chettle, Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. What's Actaeon to Aeneas?
- Chapter 2. Aeneas and the Voyagers
- Chapter 3. Troilus and Cressida: Shakespeare's Wooden World
- Chapter 4. Where Is Hector Now?
- Chapter 5. Making Troy New
- Chapter 6. The Greek Actor: Art, Aesthetics, and Drama
- Chapter 7. Metatheatre and Metamorphosis in Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar
- Chapter 8. The Edge of the Hellenic World
- Chapter 9. What Venus Did with Mars: Love and War in the Mediterranean
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 211 - 223.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501514500
- 1501514504
- 9781501514623
- 1501514628
- OCLC:
- 1138498882
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