"Remembrance of things past": Classical and Renaissance echoes in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

"Remembrance of things past": Classical and Renaissance echoes in Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor

Published:2022 Issue:32 Volume: Page:87-110
ISSN:1135-7789
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Author:

Paravano Cristina¹

Affiliation:

1. Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Abstract

This essay discusses Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor (1626) as an example of the profoundly composite nature of early modern dramatic texts. Massinger placed borrowings and echoes from several classical and early modern texts in a new context, arguably counting on audiences’ pleasure of recognition. Focusing on sources which have not received enough critical attention, this essay investigates the influence of classical authors like Tacitus and Statius, and the impact of other Massingerian plays to shed light on the way the playwright appropriated and refashioned some sources to suit his tragedy’s political agenda.

Publisher

SEDERI

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies

Reference75 articles.

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2. Edwards and Gibson 1976b. See Massinger 1976b.

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4. Hoy 1994. See Fletcher and Massinger 1994.

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