"The bees that sat upon the Grecian's lips": Classical Contaminations in Early Modern English Drama

This volume explores the shifting presence of Greek antiquity on the early modern English stage, tracing how Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights grappled with Greek texts, myths, and models. Far from being a simple inheritance, 'Greekness' emerges here as a site of creative friction – at once revered and resisted, adapted and unsettled. Through the lens of imitatio and contaminatio , the…