Cambridge Univ Pr, Date: 2007. Paperback. New. 285 pages. 8.90x5.98x0.79 inches. 2007. Cambridge Univ Pr ISBN 0521033780 9780521033787 [GB]

Paperback / softback. New. Heather James shows how Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources forms part of a larger attempt to find historical legitimacy for Britain as a realm asserting its status as an empire. She goes on to distinguish Shakespeare's deployment of the myth from 'official' Tudor and Stuart ideology. ISBN 0521033780 9780521033787 [GB]

Cambridge University Press, Date: 2007-02-12. Paperback. Good. 2007. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521033780 9780521033787 [US]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Date: 2008. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. Very good. wraps, 271 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. 2008. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521033780 9780521033787 [FR]

ISBN10: 0521033780, ISBN13: 9780521033787, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Heather James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She 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, and goes on to distinguish Shakespeare's deployment of the myth from 'official' Tudor and Stuart ideology. James traces Shakespeare's reworking of the myth in Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest, and shows how the legend of Troy in Queen Elizabeth's day differed from that in the time of King James. The larger issue the book confronts is the directly political one of the way in which Shakespeare's textual appropriations participate in the larger cultural project of finding historical legitimation for a realm that was asserting its status as an empire.
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Cambridge University Press, Date: 2007-02-12. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2007. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521033780 9780521033787 [US]