Shakespeare's Troy

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Heather James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She argues that Shakespeare’, s use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources demonstrates the appropriation of classical authority in the interests of developing a national myth, and goes on to distinguish Shakespeare’, s deployment of the myth from ‘, official’, Tudor and Stuart ideology. James traces Shakespeare’, s reworking of the myth in Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest, and shows how the legend of Troy in Queen Elizabeth’, s day differed from that in the time of King James. The larger issue the book confronts is the directly political one of the way in which Shakespeare’, s textual appropriations participate in the larger cultural project of finding historical legitimation for a realm that was asserting its status as an empire.