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Fated Sky: The Femina Furens In Shakespeare, M. Stapleton
Fated Sky: The Femina Furens In Shakespeare, M. Stapleton
M. L. Stapleton
Fated Sky reinvestigates the hypothesis of Senecan influence on Shakespeare's plays. It argues that the 1581 Elizabethan anthology, Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englyshe, was Shakespeare's primary sourcetext and medium for his reception, transmission, and imitation of this ancient author.
Thomas Heywood’S “Art Of Love”: The First Complete English Translation Of Ovid’S “Ars Amatoria”; Edited, With Introduction, Notes, And Commentary, M. Stapleton
M. L. Stapleton
Thomas Heywood (ca 1573-1641) was a major Renaissance playwright who wrote or collaborated on over two hundred plays. Loues Schoole was one of his many nondramatic works that shows his fascination with antiquity. It was the standard English translation of the Ars in the seventeenth century, so popular that it was pirated almost as soon as he had written it--then printed, sold, reprinted, and resold in England and the Netherlands. It was not attributed to him during his lifetime, and he was not allowed to share in the profits that its (considerable) sales generated, two things that rankled him for …