Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays reshaped early modern theater. 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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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).

Summary

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays reshaped early modern theater. 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.

Additional text

Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Tanya Pollard, Tanya (Professor Pollard, Pollard Tanya
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192871022
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287102-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Shakespeare:Greek:comedy:plays