Galatea

by John Lyly

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719088054
• ISBN13: 9780719088056
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"