The Early Modern Medea Medea in English Literature, 1558-1688

Title:

ISBN:

9781137466242

Personal Author:

Heavey, K. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Publication Information New:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Physical Description:

VIII, 273 p. online resource.

Series:

Early Modern Literature in History,

Abstract:

This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.

Subject Term:

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

European literature.

European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Fiction Literature.