Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-322) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Recovering Greek tragic women -- Greek plays in England -- Imitating the Queen of Troy -- What's Hecuba to him? -- Iphigenia in Illyria : Greek tragic women on comic stages -- Bringing back the dead : Shakespeare's Alcestis -- Parodying Shakespeare's Euripides in Bartholomew Fair.
Summary:
"The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.
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