Shakespeare's classical mythology : a dictionary / edited by Janice Valls-Russell and Katherine Heavey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valls-Russell, Janice, editor.

Heavey, Katherine, 1982- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Arden Shakespeare dictionary series

Arden Shakespeare dictionaries series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language--Glossaries, etc.

Shakespeare, William.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Genre:

dictionaries.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

xxi, 470 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : The Arden Shakepeare, 2025.

Summary:

"Mythological figures, creatures, places and stories crowd Shakespeare's plays and poems, featuring as allusions, poetic analogies, inset shows, scene settings, and characters or plots in their own right. This dictionary illuminates these, bringing them to life for today's audiences, readers and theatre practitioners. The 200 headings correspond to words and names actually used by Shakespeare: individual figures (Dido, Venus, Hercules), categories (Amazons, Centaurs, nymphs, satyrs), places (Colchos, Troy). Medium and longer entries also cover early modern usage and critical analysis in a cross-disciplinary approach that includes reception, textual, performance, gender and political studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-460) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare's classical mythology

ISBN:

9781350125872

1350125873

9781350513525

1350513520

OCLC:

1432608759