Galatea (Revels Student Editions)
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Galatea (Revels Student Editions)

Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak directly to contemporary experience and twenty-first-century critical concerns. Same-sex relationships, shifts of authority, and the destabilization of meaning all lend the play a surprising modernity, making it at once the most accessible of Lyly€s plays and the one most frequently performed today.

Designed for the student reader, Leah Scragg€s edition offers a range of perspectives on the work. An extensive introduction locates the play in the context of the Elizabethan court, opening a window onto a kind of drama very different from that of more familiar sixteenth-century writers, such as Marlowe and Shakespeare. The latter€s indebtedness to the play is fully documented, while detailed critical and performance histories allow an insight into the work€s susceptibility to reinterpretation.

  • TitleGalatea (Revels Student Editions)
  • BrandManchester University Press
  • ManufacturerManchester University Press
  • BindingPaperback
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ItemPartNumber9780719088056
  • ReleaseDate2012-10-30T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • EANs9780719088056