Tanya Pollard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3853428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanya Pollard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollard |
| SIGNATURE | POLLARD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6272-1204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Other Epic Afterlives
As a symbol of epic's imperial power, the Iliadic Achilles conjures a pervasively masculine model of heroism that has reverberated in later conquerors and poets. Other authors and genres, however, imagined different versions of Achilles' legacy. In particular, an extensive tradition identified him closely with women. Literary depictions of Penthesileia, Polyxena, and Iphigenia pair them with Achilles and present them as sharing his boldness, as w…
Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
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Encountering Homer through Greek Plays in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Originally received as oral performances, Homer’s epics circulated in sixteenth-century Europe not only as printed literary texts, but also through performances of a different sort. This chapter argues that fifth-century Greek plays on Homeric material played a crucial role in shaping the epics’ early modern reception. In a phrase widely circulated in the sixteenth century, Aeschylus reportedly claimed that all of his tragedies were ‘slices from …
Shakespeare and Greece
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Iphigenia in Illyria
Chapter 4, “Iphigenia in Illyria: Greek Tragic Women on Comic Stages,” argues that Greek tragic women shaped Shakespeare’s sense of comedy’s affective possibilities in plays including The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night . In the wake of Greek-inspired experiments with tragedy, Shakespeare turned to mediating versions of these tragic icons to explore the resources of female lament for soliciting sympathies in comic settings. Comedy of Errors de…
Greek Plays in England
Chapter 1, “Greek Plays in England,” argues that England played a crucial role in new transnational conversations about rediscovered Greek plays. The chapter traces the history of scholarship, translation, and publication of Greek plays in England, with a focus on the contributions of Erasmus. It develops extended readings of two important early contributions—Jane, Lady Lumley’s Tragedy of Iphigenia , a translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Auli…
Imitating the Queen of Troy
Chapter 2, “Imitating the Queen of Troy,” explores responses to Greek tragic women in Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare and Peele’s Titus Andronicus , two early revenge tragedies that both feature raging, grieving mothers and sacrificial young women framed among Greek allusions. Both plays also reflect metatheatrically on the nature of tragedy and link it with appeals to sympathy, suggesting that their attention to Greek legacies and tragic f…
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England’s dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts’ invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek…
Greek playbooks and dramatic forms in early modern England
For Tanya Pollard, the question of how dramatic genres came to take shape on the early modern stage becomes intimately linked to the print history of Greek plays, both on the Continent and in England. Arranged side-by-side with their Latin translations, and published with paratextual glosses and theoretical treatises, the format of these printed books shaped not only how Greek plays were read and interpreted, but also how generic forms were theor…
Milton, drama, and Greek texts
This collection of essays explores the connection between Milton’s approach to drama and his engagement with Greek antiquity. Paying attention to early Christian and early modern interpretive traditions as well as Greek literature, it situates the power of this conjunction for Milton within the larger project of the northern Renaissance
Feeling Pleasures
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Homer and Greek tragedy in early modern England's theatres
This special issue’s opening essay traces the circulation of Homer’s epics and Greek tragedies in sixteenth-century England, and explores their consequences for England’s commercial theatres. Bringing together new and familiar evidence on English pedagogy, translation, theatrical production, and printing, the authors argue both that these texts acquired significantly more visibility during this period than has been recognized, and that the stage …
Renaissance Hybrids
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Elizabethan Seneca
James Ker. and Jessica Winston., eds. Elizabethan Seneca: Three Tragedies. MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 8. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2012. ix + 340 pp. $20. ISBN: 978–0–947623–98–2. - Volume 66 Issue 4
What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare
When Hamlet reflects on the charged power of the tragic theater, the figure who haunts his imagination is Hecuba, Queen of Troy, whose tragedy came to define the genre in sixteenth-century Europe. As a bereaved mourner who seeks revenge, Hecuba offers a female version of Hamlet. Yet even while underscoring her tragic power, Shakespeare simultaneously establishes a new model of tragic protagonist, challenging the period’s longstanding identificati…
Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres
Matthew Steggle. Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xiii + 158 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5702–6. - Volume 62 Issue 4
Shakespeare and Embodiment
The participants in this online conversation here assess the current state of work on early modern bodies, offer bibliographical suggestions, and suggest topics for future inquiries. Paster, a key figure in the development of this sub‐field, describes her work to date as an “ecology of the passions” or an “ecology of the body” more generally; she calls for more study of “the ensouled body.”
Distracted Subjects
Carol Thomas Neely. Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2004. 264 pp. index. illus. 21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8014-4205-2 (cl), 0-8014-8924-5 (pbk). - Volume 58 Issue 3
Becoming Criminal
Bryan R. Reynolds. Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvi + 218 pp. index, illus. bibl. $41.95. ISBN: 0-8018-6808-4. - Volume 57 Issue 2
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England’s dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts’ invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek…
What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare
When Hamlet reflects on the charged power of the tragic theater, the figure who haunts his imagination is Hecuba, Queen of Troy, whose tragedy came to define the genre in sixteenth-century Europe. As a bereaved mourner who seeks revenge, Hecuba offers a female version of Hamlet. Yet even while underscoring her tragic power, Shakespeare simultaneously establishes a new model of tragic protagonist, challenging the period’s longstanding identificati…
Homer and Greek tragedy in early modern England's theatres
This special issue’s opening essay traces the circulation of Homer’s epics and Greek tragedies in sixteenth-century England, and explores their consequences for England’s commercial theatres. Bringing together new and familiar evidence on English pedagogy, translation, theatrical production, and printing, the authors argue both that these texts acquired significantly more visibility during this period than has been recognized, and that the stage …
Shakespeare and Embodiment
The participants in this online conversation here assess the current state of work on early modern bodies, offer bibliographical suggestions, and suggest topics for future inquiries. Paster, a key figure in the development of this sub‐field, describes her work to date as an “ecology of the passions” or an “ecology of the body” more generally; she calls for more study of “the ensouled body.”
Becoming Criminal
Bryan R. Reynolds. Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvi + 218 pp. index, illus. bibl. $41.95. ISBN: 0-8018-6808-4. - Volume 57 Issue 2
Shakespeare and Embodiment
The participants in this online conversation here assess the current state of work on early modern bodies, offer bibliographical suggestions, and suggest topics for future inquiries. Paster, a key figure in the development of this sub‐field, describes her work to date as an “ecology of the passions” or an “ecology of the body” more generally; she calls for more study of “the ensouled body.”
Distracted Subjects
Carol Thomas Neely. Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2004. 264 pp. index. illus. 21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8014-4205-2 (cl), 0-8014-8924-5 (pbk). - Volume 58 Issue 3
Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres
Matthew Steggle. Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xiii + 158 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5702–6. - Volume 62 Issue 4
What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare
When Hamlet reflects on the charged power of the tragic theater, the figure who haunts his imagination is Hecuba, Queen of Troy, whose tragedy came to define the genre in sixteenth-century Europe. As a bereaved mourner who seeks revenge, Hecuba offers a female version of Hamlet. Yet even while underscoring her tragic power, Shakespeare simultaneously establishes a new model of tragic protagonist, challenging the period’s longstanding identificati…
Elizabethan Seneca
James Ker. and Jessica Winston., eds. Elizabethan Seneca: Three Tragedies. MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 8. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2012. ix + 340 pp. $20. ISBN: 978–0–947623–98–2. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Renaissance Hybrids
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Greek playbooks and dramatic forms in early modern England
For Tanya Pollard, the question of how dramatic genres came to take shape on the early modern stage becomes intimately linked to the print history of Greek plays, both on the Continent and in England. Arranged side-by-side with their Latin translations, and published with paratextual glosses and theoretical treatises, the format of these printed books shaped not only how Greek plays were read and interpreted, but also how generic forms were theor…
Milton, drama, and Greek texts
This collection of essays explores the connection between Milton’s approach to drama and his engagement with Greek antiquity. Paying attention to early Christian and early modern interpretive traditions as well as Greek literature, it situates the power of this conjunction for Milton within the larger project of the northern Renaissance
Feeling Pleasures
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Homer and Greek tragedy in early modern England's theatres
This special issue’s opening essay traces the circulation of Homer’s epics and Greek tragedies in sixteenth-century England, and explores their consequences for England’s commercial theatres. Bringing together new and familiar evidence on English pedagogy, translation, theatrical production, and printing, the authors argue both that these texts acquired significantly more visibility during this period than has been recognized, and that the stage …
Iphigenia in Illyria
Chapter 4, “Iphigenia in Illyria: Greek Tragic Women on Comic Stages,” argues that Greek tragic women shaped Shakespeare’s sense of comedy’s affective possibilities in plays including The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night . In the wake of Greek-inspired experiments with tragedy, Shakespeare turned to mediating versions of these tragic icons to explore the resources of female lament for soliciting sympathies in comic settings. Comedy of Errors de…
Greek Plays in England
Chapter 1, “Greek Plays in England,” argues that England played a crucial role in new transnational conversations about rediscovered Greek plays. The chapter traces the history of scholarship, translation, and publication of Greek plays in England, with a focus on the contributions of Erasmus. It develops extended readings of two important early contributions—Jane, Lady Lumley’s Tragedy of Iphigenia , a translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Auli…
Imitating the Queen of Troy
Chapter 2, “Imitating the Queen of Troy,” explores responses to Greek tragic women in Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare and Peele’s Titus Andronicus , two early revenge tragedies that both feature raging, grieving mothers and sacrificial young women framed among Greek allusions. Both plays also reflect metatheatrically on the nature of tragedy and link it with appeals to sympathy, suggesting that their attention to Greek legacies and tragic f…
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England’s dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts’ invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek…
Encountering Homer through Greek Plays in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Originally received as oral performances, Homer’s epics circulated in sixteenth-century Europe not only as printed literary texts, but also through performances of a different sort. This chapter argues that fifth-century Greek plays on Homeric material played a crucial role in shaping the epics’ early modern reception. In a phrase widely circulated in the sixteenth century, Aeschylus reportedly claimed that all of his tragedies were ‘slices from …
Shakespeare and Greece
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
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Other Epic Afterlives
As a symbol of epic's imperial power, the Iliadic Achilles conjures a pervasively masculine model of heroism that has reverberated in later conquerors and poets. Other authors and genres, however, imagined different versions of Achilles' legacy. In particular, an extensive tradition identified him closely with women. Literary depictions of Penthesileia, Polyxena, and Iphigenia pair them with Achilles and present them as sharing his boldness, as w…
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