Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage / / Lisa Hopkins.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 234 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Wandering Trojans
- Chapter 1. What’s Actaeon to Aeneas?
- Chapter 2. Aeneas and the Voyagers
- Part II: The Ruins of Troy
- Chapter 3. Troilus and Cressida: Shakespeare’s Wooden World
- Chapter 4. Where Is Hector Now?
- Chapter 5. Making Troy New
- Part III: Striking Too Short at Greeks
- Chapter 6. The Greek Actor: Art, Aesthetics, and Drama
- Chapter 7. Metatheatre and Metamorphosis in Thomas Tomkis’s Albumazar
- Part IV: Greece on the Edge
- 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