1st Edition
Killing Hercules Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: The Trachiniae of Sophocles
Chapter 2: Hurting Inside(s): Hercules and Deianira in Ancient Rome
Chapter 3: Wrestling with Hercules in the Middle Ages
Chapter 4: Dalliance and Puddinges: Translating Herculean Marriage in/to Post-Reformation England
Chapter 5: Baroque and Berserk: from the King’s Execution to the King’s Theatre
Chapter 6: ‘After Sophocles’: Deianira and the ‘War on Terror’
Appendix. Translation: The Women of Trachis
Bibliographies
Index
Biography
Richard Rowland is Senior Lecturer in Drama in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He has edited plays by George Chapman and Ben Jonson for the Penguin Dramatists series, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II for the Oxford University Press Complete Works, and Edward IV for the Revels series (Manchester University Press). He is also the author of The Theatre of Thomas Heywood, 1599-1639: Locations, Translations and Conflict (2010).
"Throughout the book, Rowland shows remarkable erudition. Not only does he navigate an ocean of primary sources from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century, but he provides abundant documentation on each source and period, engaging with critical traditions, combining methodologies and offering many new readings."
- Charlotte Coffin, Universite Paris-Est Creteil - Cahiers Elisabethains
