Classical Tragedy Translated in Early Modern England [Guest Editor]

Heavey, K. (2020) Classical Tragedy Translated in Early Modern England [Guest Editor]. Translation and Literature, 29(1),

Abstract

This special issue comprises an editor's introduction, and seven essays addressing the early modern English reception of Greek and Roman classical tragedy, as well as the ways in which non-dramatic Graeco-Roman sources (for instance, Ovid's Metamorphoses, or Lucan's Bellum Civile) were deployed in the period's drama. The essays address the the highly intertextual nature of John Studley's translations of Seneca; the various ways in which George Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmersh's play Jocasta was aligned with Euripides' Phoenician Women, and with Greek tragedy more broadly; how Sophocles' Antigone haunts George Buchanan's biblical drama Baptistes; early modern playwrights' fascination with the Greek tragic hero Orestes; James' Calfhill's lost neo-Senecan drama Progne; and Ben Jonson's interweaving of Seneca, Lucan, and Claudian in his plays Sejanus and Catiline.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Heavey, Dr Katherine
• Authors: Heavey, K.
• Subjects: P Language and Literature > PE English; P Language and Literature > PR English literature
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
• Journal Name: Translation and Literature
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• ISSN: 0968-1361
• ISSN (Online): 1750-0214