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

ISBN-13: 9780367595562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 328 str.

Richard Rowland

Opis

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 thei

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).