Shakespeare's Troy
Subtitle: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780521033787
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Drama-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism-Shakespeare; Shakespeare, William, --1564-1616.--Troilus a; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Troilus and Cressida
First sentence: At least since the appearance of the First Folio, when Ben Jonson paid tribute to Shakespeare as the "Soule of the Age" and a poet "not of an age, but for all time," it has seemed incumbent upon critics to champion Shakespeare for his ability either to represent history or to rise above it.