Galatea
Midas: John Lyly
Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year 'the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country' be sacrificed to a sea-monster. Hiding together in the forest, the two maidens fall in love, each supposing the other to be a young man. Galatea has become the subject of considerable feminist critical study in recent years. Midas (1590) uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatising two stories about King Midas in such a…
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Weitere Autoren: Hunter, George (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-7827-9
- EAN: 9780719078279
- Produktnummer: 3399024
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 403 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 403
Über den Autor
George K. Hunter is Professor Emeritus at Yale UniversityDavid Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago
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