Greeks And Trojans On The Early Modern English Stage

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514628
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514504
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526159910
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poison on the early modern English stage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural knowledge resulting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and also the many new arrivals in English gardens through travel, trade, and attempts at colonisation. The fact that Old Hamlet was asleep reflects unease about soporifics troubling the distinction between sleep and death; pouring poison into the ear smuggles in the contemporary fear of informers; and it is difficult to prove. This book explores poisoning in early modern plays, the legal and epistemological issues it raises, and the cultural work it performs, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans’ relationship to the environment.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514156
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.

Author : Marco Duranti
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “Ecclesiae et Rei Publicae”: Greek Drama and the Education of the Ruling Class in Elizabethan England written by Marco Duranti and published by Skenè. Texts and Studies. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sixteenth-century England only two Greek plays in Greek were published: Euripides’ Troades (1575) and Aristophanes’ Equites (1593). This book raises questions on the scarceness of editions of Greek dramas and their late appearance in the English Renaissance, compared to continental editorial practices. It also seeks to reconstruct the intellectual and political context in which these two dramas were published. To this end, it examines the paratexts, especially the prefatory letters addressed either to patrons or to the readers, contained in contemporary Greek grammars and catechisms. Troades and Equites were probably published for educational purposes and their lack of paratexts invites further investigation as to the status of knowledge of Greek and how these editions were to be used in teaching. Against this backdrop, Troades and Equites appear as part and parcel of a humanistic programme connected with the education of the ruling class. The book shows that the Elizabethan age witnessed a growing interest in Greek as part of an overall project of consolidation of the Church of England and the monarchy, inspired by Protestant nationalism. In this context, reading and staging Greek dramas was regarded as a means to acquire rhetorical, ethical, philosophical, and political knowledge. These paratexts help us to understand the role of Greek and Greek literature held in the making of modern England.

Author : Betine van Zyl Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118347773
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama written by Betine van Zyl Smit and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Author : Glynne Wickham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136288325
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Part I - Early English Stages 1576-1600 written by Glynne Wickham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.

Author : Margreta de Grazia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678536X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Shakespearean Period Pieces written by Margreta de Grazia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anachronisms, previously condemned as errors in the order of time, are being hailed as alternatives to that order. Conversely chronology and periods, its mainstays, are now charged with having distorted the past they have been entrusted to represent, and secularization, once considered the driving force of the modern era, no longer holds sway over the past or the present. In light of this reappraisal, can Shakespeare studies continue unshaken? This is the question Four Shakespearean Period Pieces takes up, devoting a chapter to each term: on the rise of anachronism, the chronologizing of the canon, the staging of plays “in period,” and the use of Shakespeare in modernity’s secularizing project. To read these chapters is to come away newly alert to how these fraught concepts have served to regulate the canon’s afterlife. Margreta de Grazia does not entirely abandon them but deftly works around and against them to offer fresh insights on the reading, editing, and staging of the author at the heart of our literary canon.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Cressida written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the age-old tale of love and betrayal is based on many sources, from Homer and Ovid to Chaucer andShakespeare's near contemporary Robert Greene. In the introduction the various problems connected with the play, its performance, and publication, are considered succinctly; its multiple sources are discussed in detail, together with its peculiar stage history and its renewed popularity in recentyears.

Author : Jack D'Amico
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813010687
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moor in English Renaissance Drama written by Jack D'Amico and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D'Amico writes that when he lived in Lebanon and Morocco he taught plays such as Othello to students who, no doubt, would have been considered Moors by Shakespeare's contemporaries. His experience as an outsider trying to understand another culture shapes this work about the boundaries of perception set by race, religion and custom and about the boundaries of the imagination.