‘As Meeke as Medea, as honest as Hellen’ : English literary representations of two troublesome classical women, c.1160-1650
My thesis considers English literary representations of two notorious classical women, Helen of Troy and Medea, from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. My primary focus is on the ways in which male authors in the period deal with the troubling spectres of the women's very different power...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Durham University
2008
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495968 |