Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage

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Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage is written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501514504 (ISBN 10) and 9781501514500 (ISBN 13).

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, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking not only at plays actually set in Greece or Troy but also those which draw on characters and motifs from Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Texts covered include Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and The Tempest as well as plays by other authors of the period including Marlowe, Chettle, Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher.