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Shakespeare's Troy

Hardback
Published : Thursday 13 November 1997
ISBN : 9780521592239
Price : €98.28


Description

Heather James shows how Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources forms part of a larger attempt to find historical legitimacy for Britain as a realm asserting its status as an empire. She goes on to distinguish Shakespeare's deployment of the myth from 'official' Tudor and Stuart ideology.



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