Tanya Pollard

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages

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Produktbeschreibung

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays reshaped early modern theatre. Through original research, the book shows both that these plays were more accessible than previously believed, and that early modern audiences responded to specific themes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780198793113
• ISBN-10: 0198793111
• Artikelnr.: 48141616

Autorenporträt

Tanya Pollard is Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a member of the Council of Scholars for Theater for a New Audience. Her books include Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook (Blackwell, 2003); Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2005); and Shakespearean Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England, co-edited with Katharine Craik (Cambridge, 2013). With Tania Demetriou, she has co-edited Milton, Drama, and Greek Texts, a special issue of The Seventeenth Century Journal (2016), and Homer and Greek Tragedy in Early Modern England's Theatres, a special issue of Classical Receptions Journal (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Recovering Greek Tragic Women
1: Greek Plays in England
2: Imitating the Queen of Troy
3: What's Hecuba to Him?
4: Iphigenia in Illyria: Greek Tragic Women on Comic Stages
5: Bringing back the dead: Shakespeare's Alcestis
6: Parodying Shakespeare's Euripides in Bartholomew Fair
Appendix 1: Pre-1600 Printed Editions of Greek Plays in Greek
Appendix 2: Pre-1600 Printed Editions of Greek Plays in Latin
Appendix 3: Pre-1600 Vernacular Translations of Greek Plays
Appendix 4: Pre-1600 Performances of Greek Plays
Appendix 5: Pre-1600 Vernacular Translations of Seneca's plays
Appendix 6: Pre-1600 Performances of Seneca's plays
Appendix 7: Extant Greek Plays