From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance stage
By: by Lisa Hopkins
Series: Early drama, art, and music; Early drama, art, and music monograph series
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Kalamazoo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781580442794
Subjects: English Historical drama; History and criticism; English drama; In literature; Civilization, Classical, in literature; Early modern and Elizabethan; Literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Legacies. "Bisson conspectuities": language and national identity in Shakespeare's Roman plays; title: Profit and delight? magic and the dreams of a nation; title: "A borrowed blood for brute": from Britain to England; title: Ancestors and others. Queens and the British history; title: Dido in Denmark: Danes and Saxons on the early modern English stage; title: Valiant Welshwomen: when Britain came back; title: Athelstan, the virgin king; title: Conclusion.