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Author:   Jane Grogan (Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature, Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature, School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.724kg
ISBN:  

9780198767114

ISBN 10:   0198767110
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   23 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Contributors 0: Jane Grogan: Introduction Part I: Routes of Reception 1: Noreen Humble: The Well-Thumbed Attic Muse: Cicero and the Reception of Xenophon's Persia in the Early Modern Period 2: Dennis Looney: Zoanne Pencaro, an Early Modern Italian Reader of the Ancient Near East in Herodotus 3: Galena Hashhozheva: From 'Custom is King' to 'Custom is a Metal': The Early Modern Afterlife of Ancient Scythian Culture 4: Su Fang Ng: Reading Ancient Fables from the East: Pierre-Daniel Huet's Two-Origin Aetiology of Romance Part II: Materials and Traces 5: Ladan Niayesh: Reterritorializing Persepolis in the First English Travellers' Accounts 6: Thomas Roebuck: Antiquarianism in the Near East: Thomas Smith (1638 1710) and his Journey to the Seven Churches of Asia 7: Megan C. Armstrong: Journeying to an Antique Christian Past: Holy Land Pilgrimage Narratives in the Era of the Reformation Part III: Refiguring Sources 8: Deirdre Serjeantson: Richard Verstegan and the Symbol of Babylon in the Early Modern Period 9: Derval Conroy: Casting Models: Female Exempla of the Ancient Near East in Seventeenth-Century French Drama and Gallery Books (1642 1662) 10: Jennifer Sarha: Assyria in Early Modern Historiography 11: Jane Grogan: Alexander the Great in Early Modern English Drama 12: Edith Hall: Crises of Self and Succession: Cambyses in the English Theatre 1560 1667 Bibliography Index

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...there can be no doubt it contains excellent, distinguished work and will become a touchstone for researchers interested in the subject. * Raphael Magarik, University of Illinois, Chicago, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Author Information

Jane Grogan is an Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She is the author of two monographs, Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene (Routledge, 2009) and The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), as well as various journal articles on classical reception, ekphrasis, early modern epic, and Anglo-Ottoman engagements. She has also edited a collection of essays on Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos for Manchester University Press (Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos; 2010) and is currently finishing an edition of William Barker's English translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia for the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translation series.

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