Cargando…
Shakespeare's Troy : drama, politics, and the translation of empire /
Heather 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, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
|
| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
22. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Heather 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. The larger issue the book confronts is the directly political one of the way in which Shakespeare's textual appropriations participate in the larger cultural project of finding historical legitimation for a realm that was asserting its status as an empire. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585033803 9780585033808 9780521592239 0521592232 9780511000782 0511000782 0511824165 9780511824166 0511581963 9780511581960 |