What Is a Greek Source on the Early English Stage? Fifteen New Essays

Silvia Bigliazzi; Tania Demetriou; Tom Bishop; Domenico Lovascio; Francesco Dall'Olio; Colin Burrow; William West; Alessandro Grilli; Francesco Morosi; Tom Harrison; Jane Raisch; Gherardo Ugolini; Emanuel Stelzer; Evgeniia  Ganberg; Janice Valls-Russell

doi:10.13136/knnr2f44

What Is a Greek Source on the Early English Stage? Fifteen New Essays

Authors

Silvia Bigliazzi (ed)

University of Verona

Tania Demetriou (ed)

University of Cambridge

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/knnr2f44

Keywords:

Classical Reception; Greek Reception; Early Modern English Drama

Synopsis

A renewed focus on classical receptions in early modern English culture has now gone beyond the fundamental questions of whether or not Greek texts were translated into English, or how they were translated, and whether their original language had any cultural value. The question the book engages with is whether either was truly significant and how. What did ‘classical’ mean for them and did 'classical’ literature, notably Greek, circulate in early modern England in ways comparable to our own conception of it? This book offers fifteen new essays on the receptions of Greek drama in early modern English drama inquiring what a Greek source meant for the English stage.

Chapters

Introduction

Silvia Bigliazzi

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Invisible Books: Shakespeare and ‘Narrative Sources’

Colin Burrow

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The Strange Case of the Singing Chorus that Was Not There. On the Authority of Authorities

Silvia Bigliazzi

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Classicism as Medievalism: Gower & Mediation in Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Jane Raisch

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An Idea of Old Comedy: Ben Jonson’s Metatextual Appropriation of Aristophanes

Alessandro Grilli

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“Of gentle and ignoble, base and kings”: the Transformations of the Homeric Simile on the Early Modern English Stage

Evgeniia Ganberg

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“An Empire equall with thy mind”: the ‘Persian Plays’ and the Reception of Herodotus in Renaissance England

Francesco Dall'Olio

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Aristophanes in The Staple of News: Ideology and Drama

Francesco Morosi

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Questions of Mediation of the Deus ex Machina in Elizabethan Drama

Emanuel Stelzer

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Hermaphroditical Authority: Epicene and The Aristophanic Chorus

Tom Harrison

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Unveiling Wives: Euripides’ Alcestis and Two Plays in the Fletcher Canon

Domenico Lovascio

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Tragedy, Persuasion, and the Humanist Daughter: Jane Lumley’s Iphigeneya

Tom Bishop

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Unwritten Laws and Natural Law in Watson’s Antigone

Gherardo Ugolini

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Much Ado about Greek tragedy? Shakespeare, Euripides, and the histoire tragique

Tania Demetriou

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Translating Greek History into Humanist Neo-Senecan Drama: William Alexander’s Croesus (1604)

Janice Valls-Russell

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“Is All Well Put Together In Every Part?”: Assembling a Renaissance Bacchae

William West

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