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LisaHopkins GreeksandTrojansontheEarlyModernEnglishStage Late Tudor and Stuart Drama Gender, Performance, and Material Culture Series Editors Cristina León Alfar (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) HelenOstovich(McMasterUniversity,Hamilton,Canada) Lisa Hopkins Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage ISBN978-1-5015-1858-4 e-ISBN(PDF)978-1-5015-1462-3 e-ISBN(EPUB)978-1-5015-1450-0 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2019951942 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableontheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2020WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Boston/Berlin Coverimage:©VictoriaandAlbertMuseum,London Typesetting:IntegraSoftwareServicesPvt.Ltd. Printingandbinding:CPIbooksGmbH,Leck www.degruyter.com Formymother,MarjorieCronin, whoismarkingherninthdecade bylearningGreek Acknowledgements IowedebtsofgratitudetoBillAngus;YasminArshad;ToddBorlik;myclassics teachersMrs.Goulding,Mr.Kennedy,andespeciallyMissBoldrywhomademe learnachorusfromEuripides’sHecabebyheart;ArunCheta;NicholasCoureas; Pavel Drabek; Alison Findlay; Jim Fitzmaurice; Erika Gaffney; Dave Kathman; Domenico Lovascio, who nobly read the whole manuscript; David McInnis; Vassia Markidou for letting me see the proof of her work on travellers to Troy; KirkMelnikoffandLucyMunro,whoorganised theMarloweSocietyofAmerica conferenceinWittenbergwhichfocusedmymindonHoffman;MichaelParaskos and everyone involved with the annual Othello’s Island conference on Cyprus, whichgivesmeaconstantincentivetobeinterestedintheHellenicworld;Tanya Pollard, JaniceValls-Russell,FranRaynerand all the participants of their semi- naronTroyattheInternationalShakespeareConferenceinStratford-upon-Avon in July 2018, which prompted the first half of chapter 5; Tom Rutter; Jasmine Seymour;RachelWhite,BethanyJones,andImogenFelstead,whoorganisedthe conference on “Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture,1350–1700”atLancasterUniversitywhichintroducedmetoAlbumazar; and, as always, Chris and Sam. I have been extremely fortunate in the support and companionship of my Renaissance colleagues at Sheffield Hallam, Susan Anderson, Dan Cadman, Annaliese Connolly, Colm MacCrossan, and until recentlyMattSteggle.Partsofchapter1havepreviouslyappearedas“What’s Actaeon to Aeneas? Marlowe’s Mythological Mischief,” Marlowe Studies 4 (2014): 49–62 and “Marlovian Models and Itinerant Identities: Dido, Tamburlaine, and the Discourse of Colonialism,” Marlowe Studies 5 (2015): 61–78; of chapter 4 as “England’s Empire in Europe,” in Early Modern Identities in English: Religion, Gender, Nature, edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons (Turnhout:Brepols,2014),145–64;ofchapter5as“OntheEdgeoftheS(h)elf: Arbella Stuart,” in Women on the Edge, edited by Lisa Hopkins and Aidan Norrie(Leeds:ARCHumanitiesPress,2019);ofchapter8as“CaterinaCornaro and the Colonization of Cyprus,” in Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens, edited by Estelle Paranque, Nate Probosco, and Claire Jowitt (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017), 97–116;andofchapter9as“LoveandWaronVenus’Island:OthelloandThe Lover’sMelancholy,”JournalofMediterraneanStudies25.1(2016):51–63. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514623-202 Contents Acknowledgements VII Introduction 1 Notes 19 Part I:Wandering Trojans Chapter1 What’sActaeontoAeneas? 27 Notes 40 Chapter2 AeneasandtheVoyagers 43 Notes 60 Part II:The Ruinsof Troy Chapter3 TroilusandCressida:Shakespeare’sWoodenWorld 65 Notes 78 Chapter4 WhereIsHectorNow? 81 Notes 99 Chapter5 MakingTroyNew 103 Notes 116 Part III:Striking TooShort atGreeks Chapter6 TheGreekActor:Art,Aesthetics,andDrama 123 Notes 142

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