description: 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.
language: English
title: Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire
titlecomplete: Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 22)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 9
series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
publisher: Cambridge University Press