The Early Modern Medea [electronic resource] : Medea in English Literature, 1558–1688 /
Heavey, K.author.
This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Introduction; Modern Medea and some strategies for representation; Similarity and difference: Medea as cautionary example; Profit and delight; Creating and interpreting Medea; 1 Medieval Medea; Continental Medea; Medea in allegorical and moralising tradition; Medea in medieval English literature; Medea and misogyny in Lydgate: the Troy Book and the Fall of Princes; Mastering Medea in Caxton; 2 Translating Medea; Early modern Seneca; Early modern Metamorphoses; Early modern Tristia; Early modern Heroides; 3 Tragic Medea
Elizabethan prose and verseTragic drama; Shakespeare's tragic Medea; Late seventeenth-century tragedy; 4 Comic Medea; Misreading Medea in early modern prose fiction; Medea in comedy and tragicomedy; Parodying Medea; 5 Political Medea; Medea, Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots; Michael Drayton's Medea; Medea and medieval disorder; Medea and the threat of Rome; Medea and the English Civil Wars; Medea, regicide and restoration; Conclusion; Women writing Medea; Towards the eighteenth century; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.
Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Fiction.