Rumour and Renown

Rumour and Renown
Author: Philip R. Hardie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 707
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521620880

Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.