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Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Lisa Hopkins
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-20 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, sin
Poison on the early modern English stage
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Lisa Hopkins
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-29 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is
The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Lisa Hopkins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-07 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his c
“Ecclesiae et Rei Publicae”: Greek Drama and the Education of the Ruling Class in Elizabethan England
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In sixteenth-century England only two Greek plays in Greek were published: Euripides’ Troades (1575) and Aristophanes’ Equites (1593). This book raises ques
Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology: A Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Janice Valls-Russell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-17 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals' staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad? This dictionary