Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition

Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition
Author: Tania Demetriou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781526140234

This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywood's fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends to the shaping role of classics in his authorial self-fashioning and idiosyncratic aesthetic.

Thomas Heywood and the classical tradition

Thomas Heywood and the classical tradition
Author: Tania Demetriou
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 152614025X

This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood’s engagement with the classics. Its introduction and twelve essays trace how the classics shaped Heywood’s work in a variety of genres across a writing career of over forty years, ranging from drama, epic and epyllion, to translations, compendia and the design of a warship for Charles I. Close readings demonstrate the influence of a capaciously conceived classical tradition that included continental editions and translations of Latin and Greek texts, early modern mythographies and the medieval tradition of Troy. They attend to Heywood’s thought-provoking imitations and juxtapositions of these sources, his use of myth to interrogate gender and heroism, and his turn to antiquity to celebrate and defamiliarise the theatrical or political present. Heywood’s better-known works are discussed alongside critically neglected ones, making the collection valuable for undergraduates and researchers alike.

How the Classics Made Shakespeare

How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691210144

"This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, under the title, "Ancient Strength: Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition"--Preface, page ix.

An Ocean Untouched and Untried

An Ocean Untouched and Untried
Author: John-Mark Philo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198857985

The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. This study explores the early modern translations of Livy, the single most important Roman historian for the development of politics and culture in Renaissance Europe.

Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Shakespeare and Textual Studies
Author: Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107023742

A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.

Daughters of Sparta

Daughters of Sparta
Author: Claire Heywood
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059318436X

For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships—but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra. As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivaled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. But such privilege comes at a cost. While still only girls, the sisters are separated and married to foreign kings of their father's choosing— Helen remains in Sparta to be betrothed to Menelaos, and Klytemnestra is sent alone to an unfamiliar land to become the wife of the powerful Agamemnon. Yet even as Queens, each is only expected to do two things: birth an heir and embody the meek, demure nature that is expected of women. But when the weight of their husbands' neglect, cruelty, and ambition becomes too heavy to bear, Helen and Klytemnestra must push against the constraints of their society to carve new lives for themselves, and in doing so, make waves that will ripple throughout the next three thousand years. Daughters of Sparta is a vivid and illuminating reimagining of the Siege of Troy, told through the perspectives of two women whose voices have been ignored for far too long.

Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Author: Janice Valls-Russell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2017-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526117711

This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.

The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage

The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage
Author: Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107099773

The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.

The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

The Cambridge Introduction to Satire
Author: Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1107030188

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy
Author: Laurie Maguire
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781444308631

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great influence on Western cultural consciousness for more than three millennia Features a wide and diverse variety of literary sources, including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare Includes an analysis of a radio play by the prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and a Faust play by a contemporary Scottish playwright Explores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers apportion blame or exculpate her Considers the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth