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Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire

Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 22

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ISBN10: 0521592232
ISBN13: 9780521592239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 1997
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Heather James argues that Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources demonstrates the appropriation of classical authority in the interests of developing a national myth. She goes on to distinguish Shakespeare's deployment of the myth--notably in Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, and The Tempest--from official Tudor and Stuart ideology, and to show how Shakespeare participates in the larger cultural project of finding historical legitimacy for Britain as a realm asserting its status as an empire.

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