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Shakespeare's classical mythology : a dictionary / edited by Janice Valls-Russell and Katherine Heavey.

Valls-Russell, Janice, editor.; Heavey, Katherine, 1982- editor.
2025
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Title
Shakespeare's classical mythology : a dictionary / edited by Janice Valls-Russell and Katherine Heavey.
Published
London ; New York : The Arden Shakepeare, 2025.
Copyright
2025
Description
xxi, 470 pages ; 24 cm.
Associated name
Valls-Russell, Janice, editor.
Heavey, Katherine, 1982- editor.
Series statement
Arden Shakespeare dictionaries series
Summary
"Mythological figures, creatures, places and stories crowd Shakespeare's plays and poems, featuring as allusions, poetic analogies, inset shows, scene settings, and characters or plots in their own right. This dictionary illuminates these, bringing them to life for today's audiences, readers and theatre practitioners. The 200 headings correspond to words and names actually used by Shakespeare: individual figures (Dido, Venus, Hercules), categories (Amazons, Centaurs, nymphs, satyrs), places (Colchos, Troy). Medium and longer entries also cover early modern usage and critical analysis in a cross-disciplinary approach that includes reception, textual, performance, gender and political studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-460) and index.
Series
Arden Shakespeare dictionary series.
Genre/form
Dictionaries.

Call number
PR2892 .S446 2025

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