James, Heather: Shakespeare's Troy

Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire. James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She argues that Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources demonstrates the appropriation of classical authority in the interests of developing a national myth, and goes on to distinguish Shakespeare's deployment of the myth from 'official' Tudor and Stuart ideology. James traces Shakespeare's reworking of the myth in Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest, and shows how the legend of Troy in Queen Elizabeth's day differed from that in the time of King James. XII,271 Seiten mit 16 Abb., gebunden (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture; Vol. 22/Cambridge University Press 1997) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben, Klebung scheint an inneren Einbanddeckeln durch/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed, the glue shows through on the inner cover