This essay investigates the representation of the Julio-Claudian veneficae in early modern English drama through the analysis of three plays— Matthew Gwinne’s Nero (1603), Thomas May’s Tragedy of Julia Agrippina (1639), and Nathanael Richards’s Messalina (1640).

'Poison on, monsters!’: Female Poisoners in Early Modern Roman Tragedies

Stelzer, Emanuel
2020-01-01

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This essay investigates the representation of the Julio-Claudian veneficae in early modern English drama through the analysis of three plays— Matthew Gwinne’s Nero (1603), Thomas May’s Tragedy of Julia Agrippina (1639), and Nathanael Richards’s Messalina (1640).
2020
9781501518560
poisoners, early modern English drama, Thomas May
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