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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Early Modern Medea
    sub title: Medea in English Literature, 1558-1688
  name:
    name part: Heavey, Katherine
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 273 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The classical witch and infanticide Medea was a figure of potent interest to early modern English authors, and she was adapted or alluded to by a wealth of major and lesser-known writers in the period, including Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, James Shirley and Robert Greene. Medea's story was a significant one for early modern translators, but the bloody revenge she takes on her faithless husband Jason also fascinated authors of tragedy, political writing and even comedy. This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, in the period 1558-1688. Encompassing poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing, this book explores how early modern authors were at once fascinated and repelled by Medea's terrible power, and how they sought to represent but also negotiate her ruthless cruelty, to caution and entertain their readers and audiences.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements Introduction1. Medieval Medea 2. Translating Medea 3. Tragic Medea 4. Comic Medea 5. Political Medea Conclusion Bibliography Index.
  note: Katherine Heavey, University Teacher in Early Modern English Literature, University of Glasgow, UK.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)
      name part: Medea
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  classification: PR408.M37 H43 2015
  classification: 820.9/351
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early modern literature in history
  identifier: 9781137466341 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137466340 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014026502
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140723
    record change date: 20151105195719.0
    record identifier: in00003534719