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The Mobile Queen: Observing Hecuba in Renaissance Europe

This essay investigates the influence of Euripides’ Hecuba on Renaissance ideas about tragedy, from Italy and Spain to France, England, and, especially, the Ragusan Republic (Dubrovnik). Hitherto left out of the standard accounts of Euripides in the Renaissance, Marin Držić’s Hecuba (1559) is shown to be the only vernacular version of Euripides that was performed in Renaissance Europe. Informed by a fresh analysis of the play's manuscript tradition, the essay argues that through its sustained interest in theatrical spectacle and observation the Ragusan Hecuba responds to certain elements in Euripides’ drama that have been obscured by the traditions of modern criticism. An analogous response is identified in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, Euripides, Medieval Dubrovnik (Ragusa)

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