Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage

by Lisa Hopkins

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501514500
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/20/2020
Series:	Late Tudor and Stuart Drama
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, GB.
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.