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The Figure of Mary Mother of God in Christus Patiens: Fragmenting Tragic Myth and Passion Narrative in a Byzantine Appropriation of Euripidean Tragedy
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-11-07)
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The Byzantine passion play <jats:italic>Christus Patiens</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Christ Suffering</jats:italic>) is a cento: composed of quotations and borrowings from other ...
Fish, Firemen, and Prize Fighters: The Transformation of the Iliad and Aeneid on the London Burlesque Stage
(Oxford University Press, 2018-12-01)
Burlesque drama—arguably the most widespread form of theatrical entertainment in nineteenth-century Britain—brought the Iliad and Aeneid to a wider range of spectators than those who traditionally encountered ancient ...