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Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Jane Pettegree
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-28 - Publisher: Springer

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This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on
Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Sandra Logan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-11 - Publisher: Springer

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This book examines Shakespeare’s depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics. Linking early
The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Brett Hirsch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare
Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage
Language: en
Pages: 244
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
From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Lisa Hopkins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-30 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the