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Author | : Tania Demetriou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781526140234 |
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This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywood's fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends to the shaping role of classics in his authorial self-fashioning and idiosyncratic aesthetic.
Author | : Tania Demetriou |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 152614025X |
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This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood’s engagement with the classics. Its introduction and twelve essays trace how the classics shaped Heywood’s work in a variety of genres across a writing career of over forty years, ranging from drama, epic and epyllion, to translations, compendia and the design of a warship for Charles I. Close readings demonstrate the influence of a capaciously conceived classical tradition that included continental editions and translations of Latin and Greek texts, early modern mythographies and the medieval tradition of Troy. They attend to Heywood’s thought-provoking imitations and juxtapositions of these sources, his use of myth to interrogate gender and heroism, and his turn to antiquity to celebrate and defamiliarise the theatrical or political present. Heywood’s better-known works are discussed alongside critically neglected ones, making the collection valuable for undergraduates and researchers alike.
Author | : John-Mark Philo |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198857985 |
Download An Ocean Untouched and Untried Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. From debates over the rights of women to the sources of Shakespeare's plays, the Greco-Roman historians played a central role in the period's political, cultural, and literary achievements. An Ocean Untouched and Untried: The Tudor Translations of Livy explores the early modern translations of Livy, the single most important Roman historian for the development of politics and culture in Renaissance Europe. It examines the influence exerted by Livy's history of Rome, the Ab Urbe Condita, in some of the most pressing debates of the day, from Tudor foreign policy to arguments concerning the merits of monarchy at the height of the English Civil War. An Ocean Untouched and Untried examines Livy's initial reception into print in Europe, outlining the attempts of his earliest editors to impose a critical order onto his enormous work. It then considers the respective translations undertaken by Anthony Cope, William Thomas, William Painter, and Philemon Holland, comparing each translation in detail to the Latin original and highlighting the changes that Livy's history experienced in each process. It explores the wider impact of Livy on popular forms of literature in the period, especially the plays and poetry of Shakespeare, and demonstrate the Livy played a fundamental though underexplored role in the development of vernacular literature, historiography, and political thought in early modern England.
Author | : Jessica L. Malay |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136961062 |
Download Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls — figures from classical antiquity — played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful authority due to their centuries-old connection to prophetic declamations of the coming of Christ and the Apocalypse. The identity of the sibyls, however, was not limited to this particular aspect of their fame, but contained a fluid multi-layering of meanings given their prominence in ancient Greek and Roman cultures, as well as the widespread dissemination of prophecies attributed the sibyls that circulated through the oral tradition. Sibylline prophecy of the Middle Ages served as another conduit through which sibylline authority, fame, and familiarity was transmitted and enhanced. Writers as disparate as John Foxe, John Dee, Thomas Churchyard, John Fletcher, Thomas Heywood, Jane Seager, John Lyly, An Collins, William Shakespeare, and many draw upon this shared sibylline tradition to produce particular and specific meanings in their writing. This book explores the many identities, the many faces, of the prophetic sibyls as they appear in the works of English Renaissance writers.
Author | : Jonathan Bate |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691210144 |
Download How the Classics Made Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, under the title, "Ancient Strength: Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition"--Preface, page ix.
Author | : Margaret Jane Kidnie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107023742 |
Download Shakespeare and Textual Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.
Author | : Thomas Heywood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1850 |
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ISBN | : |
Download The First and Second Parts of the Fair Maid of the West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Colin Heywood |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1509525386 |
Download A History of Childhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread. This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most recent research, and in particular revises and expands the sections on theoretical developments in the 'new social studies of childhood', on medieval conceptions of the child, on parenting and on children’s literature. Rather than merely narrating their experiences from the perspectives of adults, Heywood incorporates children’s testimonies, 'looking up' as well as 'down'. Paying careful attention to elements of continuity as well as change, he tells a story of astonishing material improvement for the lives of children in advanced societies, while showing how the business of preparing for adulthood became more and more complicated and fraught with emotional difficulties. Rich with evocative details of everyday life, and providing the most concise and readable synthesis of the literature available, Heywood's book will be indispensable to all those interested in the study of childhood.
Author | : Tanya Pollard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0198793111 |
Download Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"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.
Author | : Richard Rowland |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317109090 |
Download Killing Hercules Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers an entirely new reception history of the myth of Hercules and his wife/killer Deianira. The book poses, and attempts to answer, two important and related questions. First, why have artists across two millennia felt compelled to revisit this particular myth to express anxieties about violence at both a global and domestic level? Secondly, from the moment that Sophocles disrupted a myth about the definitive exemplar of masculinity and martial prowess and turned it into a story about domestic abuse, through to a 2014 production of Handel’s Hercules that was set in the context of the ‘war on terror’, the reception history of this myth has been one of discontinuity and conflict; how and why does each culture reinvent this narrative to address its own concerns and discontents, and how does each generation speak to, qualify or annihilate the certainties of its predecessors in order to understand, contain or exonerate the aggression with which their governors – of state and of the household – so often enforce their authority, and the violence to which their nations, and their homes, are perennially vulnerable?