Reading Drama in Tudor England. Tamara Atkin. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. London: Routledge, 2018. xxx + 240 pp. $140.
More’s Utopia). Some, moreover, prefer “Mary Sidney Herbert” to this volume’s “Mary Sidney Pembroke,” although there may be no perfect name for her, granted the shifts through the centuries in aristocratic female nomenclature. Whatever its weaknesses, this edition is valuable. The introduction offers useful information, not least on Cleopatra’s popularity in Renaissance Europe, Antony’s disastrous faults, and both plays concern with “hubristic tyrants.” To have these two contemporary translations of Garnier to hand is a pleasure for Gallicists, students of English Renaissance drama, and those curious to see more versions of ancient struggle, tragedy, and courage.