Michelle M. Dowd and Natasha Korda. Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 310. $119.95 (cloth).

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 448-449
Author(s):  
Paula Humfrey
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English

scholarly journals Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Lucy Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Biblical Drama ◽  
The Impact

This essay takes up the question of what impact Greek tragedy had on original plays written in Latin in the sixteenth century. In exploring George Buchanan's biblical drama Baptistes sive calumnia (printed 1577) and its reworking of scenes and images from Sophocles' Antigone, we see how neo-Latin drama provided a valuable channel for the sharing and shaping of early modern ideas about Greek tragedy. The impact of the Baptistes on English drama is then examined, with particular reference to Thomas Watson's celebrated Latin translation of Antigone (1581). The strange affinities between Watson's and Buchanan's plays reveal the potential for Greek tragedy to shape early modern drama, but also for early modern drama to shape how Greek tragedy itself was read and received in early modern England.

Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama. Edited by Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. x + 347 + illus. $60 cloth.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-165
Author(s):  
Paul Nelsen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English

“One of modern theatre history's enduring shibboleths is that the Shakespearean stage was a bare one,” assert editors Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda in their introduction to this remarkable volume of essays.

Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama.

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 536
Author(s):  
B. R. Siegfried ◽  
Frank Whigham
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
The Will
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