Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Fall 2018
Abstract
In lieu of an abstract, here is the review's first paragraph:
In this clearly written and thoroughly researched book, Pollard argues that ancient Greek tragedies influenced sixteenth-century theater significantly more than previously thought. Pollard offers evidence of their availability and popularity during the early modern period and includes several useful appendices listing sixteenth-century editions of Greek plays in Greek, Latin and vernacular languages as well as performances of plays by or based on Greek playwrights. Pollard finds additional proof in the echoes of Greek tragic icons in a variety of sixteenth-century plays, which she analyzes to better understand the “complex process of literary transmission” and “an explicitly theatrical model for intertextual engagement” (3).
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/clw.2018.0079
Publication Information
Uman, Deborah (2018). "Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard (review)." Classical World 112.1, 743-744.
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Comments
This review was published in Classical World in 2018 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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