Richard Rowland

Killing Hercules (eBook, PDF)

Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

Each chapter of this book offers a detailed account of the ways in which different cultures - the ancient Greek democracy, imperial Rome, early Christianity, the emergent vernacular cultures of late medieval and early modern Europe, the Enlightenment - have re-evaluated the story of Hercules and his wife and killer Deianira, in the light of their own attempts to come to terms with the phenomena of military and domestic violence. The study combines the close examination of texts, translations and visual images, but it is also about performance: it begins with Sophocles interrogating the cult of Hercules' heroism and deification in his Trachiniae, and ends with Martin Crimp's reworking of that play in 2004.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317109099
• Artikelnr.: 47386863

Autorenporträt

Richard Rowland is Senior Lecturer in Drama in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He has edited plays by George Chapman and Ben Jonson for the Penguin Dramatists series, Christopher Marlowe's Edward II for the Oxford University Press Complete Works, and Edward IV for the Revels series (Manchester University Press). He is also the author of The Theatre of Thomas Heywood, 1599-1639: Locations, Translations and Conflict (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: The Trachiniae of Sophocles
Chapter 2: Hurting Inside(s): Hercules and Deianira in Ancient Rome
Chapter 3: Wrestling with Hercules in the Middle Ages
Chapter 4: Dalliance and Puddinges: Translating Herculean Marriage in/to
Post-Reformation England
Chapter 5: Baroque and Berserk: from the King's Execution to the King's
Theatre
Chapter 6: 'After Sophocles': Deianira and the 'War on Terror'
Appendix. Translation: The Women of Trachis
Bibliographies
Index