Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition

Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition
Janice Valls-Russell, Tania Demetriou
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h234 x 156mm - 344pg
2 Mar 2021 UK
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9781526140234
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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.
Tania Demetriou is lecturer at the Faculty of English at the University of CambridgeJanice Valls-Russell is a principal research associate of France' s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the University Paul Valery, Montpellier
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ISBN-13: 9781526140234
Published: 2 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 344

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