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  title info:
    title: Shakespeare and Greece
  name:
    name part: Findlay, Alison
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Markidou, Vassiliki
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 288 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson's claim that Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare's texts, a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. To early modern England, Greece was an enigma. It was the origin and idealized pinnacle of Western philosophy, tragedy, democracy, heroic human endeavor and, at the same time, an example of decadence, a fallen state, currently under Ottoman control, and therefore an exotic, dangerous, 'Other' in the most disturbing senses of the word. Indeed, while Britain was struggling to establish itself as a nation state and an imperial authority by emulating classical Greek models, this ambition was radically unsettled by early modern Greece's subjection to the Ottoman Empire, which rendered Europe's eastern borders dramatically vulnerable. Focussing, for the first time, on Shakespeare's 'Greek' texts (Venus and Adonis, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest and The Two Noble Kinsmen), the volume considers how Shakespeare's use of antiquity and Greek myth intersects with early modern perceptions of the country and its empire.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Embodying Greece in Elizabethan England: Venus and Adonis and Love's Labour's Lost -- 3. Greece "digested in a play": Consuming Greek Heroism in The School of Abuse and Troilus and Cressida -- 4. Timon of Athens and Greek "Democracy" -- 5. The Comedy of Errors and "farthest Greece" -- 6. Reshaping Athens in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen -- 7. "To take our imagination / From bourn to bourn, region to region": The Politics of Greek Topographies in Pericles -- 8. Simulating Magna Graecia in The Winter's Tale -- 9. Shakespeare and Ancient Greek Philosophy: 'Nomos' and 'Physis' in King Lear -- 10. Cognitive (Re)generation: Sycorax versus Hymen reinvented in The Tempest -- 11. "Midsummer" in Modern Athens: Dreaming in Greek.
  note: edited by Alison Findlay and Vassiliki Markidou.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-270) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Knowledge
    topic: Greece
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    topic: Greek influences
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Historical drama, English
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
  subject:
    topic: DRAMA / Shakespeare
  classification: PR3069.G64 S43 2017
  classification: 822.3/3
  identifier: 9781474244251
  identifier: 1474244254
  identifier: 9781474244268
  identifier: 2016029746
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160930
    record change date: 20170217095449.0
    record identifier: in00003712818