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HOPKINS, Lisa (2017). The Danish romance play: Fair Em, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, and Hoffman. Early modern literary studies, 27.
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Abstract
This essay considers the representation of women from around the Baltic Sea in three plays, Fair Em, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, and Hoffman, and explores how they are framed or conditioned by stories from classical mythology. I argue that not only do these have elements in common but that they are also so different from the genre of the Danish history play (made up of plays which are centred on or refer to Viking invasions) that they deserve a separate classification of Danish romance play. Unlike the Danish history play, in which Danish women in particular are often frightening and alien figures, the Danish romance play gives us resilient, resourceful women who actively deploy stories from classical mythology rather than allowing themselves to be passively inscribed in them, and it also speaks of a significant and continuing connection between Britain and the continent.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Published in Special Issue: European Women in Early Modern Drama, edited by Edel Semple and Ema Vyroubalova. |
| Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Humanities Research Centre |
| Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Lisa Hopkins |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2017 11:00 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 16:07 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17158 |
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