What Is a Greek Source on the Early English Stage? Fifteen New Essays
Keywords:
Classical Reception; Greek Reception; Early Modern English DramaSynopsis
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
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Introduction
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Invisible Books: Shakespeare and ‘Narrative Sources’
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The Strange Case of the Singing Chorus that Was Not There. On the Authority of Authorities
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Classicism as Medievalism: Gower & Mediation in Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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An Idea of Old Comedy: Ben Jonson’s Metatextual Appropriation of Aristophanes
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“Of gentle and ignoble, base and kings”: the Transformations of the Homeric Simile on the Early Modern English Stage
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“An Empire equall with thy mind”: the ‘Persian Plays’ and the Reception of Herodotus in Renaissance England
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Aristophanes in The Staple of News: Ideology and Drama
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Questions of Mediation of the Deus ex Machina in Elizabethan Drama
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Hermaphroditical Authority: Epicene and The Aristophanic Chorus
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Unveiling Wives: Euripides’ Alcestis and Two Plays in the Fletcher Canon
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Tragedy, Persuasion, and the Humanist Daughter: Jane Lumley’s Iphigeneya
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Unwritten Laws and Natural Law in Watson’s Antigone
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Much Ado about Greek tragedy? Shakespeare, Euripides, and the histoire tragique
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Translating Greek History into Humanist Neo-Senecan Drama: William Alexander’s Croesus (1604)
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“Is All Well Put Together In Every Part?”: Assembling a Renaissance Bacchae
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Published
June 19, 2024
Series
Online ISSN
2464-9295
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ISBN-13 (15)
9-788846-7-6958-9