The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage

2009/01/01 by Jeffrey Richards · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism #Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research #Literature Analysis and Criticism

paper · doi:10.1057/9780230250895

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Abstract

The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy

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• Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
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