Cover illustration: Actors costumed as Herakles and Silenos, ready to perform in a satyr-play. The Pronomos Vase, Attic red-figure krater c.410 BCE (Naples H3240). Photo: Giorgio Albano, courtesy of the Ministry of Culture – Museo Archeologico di Napoli.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stafford, Emma, editor.
Title: Hercules performed : the hero on stage from the enlightenment to the early twenty-first century / edited by Emma Stafford.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: Metaforms : studies in reception of classical antiquity, 2212-9405 ; volume 25 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024011068 (print) | LCCN 2024011069 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004695757 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004696938 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Drama—History and criticism. | Heracles (Greek mythological character)—In literature. | Mythology, Greek, in literature. | Mythology, Greek, in the theater. | Theater—History. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | Essays.
Classification: LCC PN1650.H47 H47 2024 (print) | LCC PN1650.H47 (ebook) | DDC 809/.93351—dc23/eng/20240314
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024011068
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024011069
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ISSN 2212-9405
ISBN 978-90-04-69575-7 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-69693-8 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004696938
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