Introduction Embodying the Hero and His Story

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Hercules Performed

The Hero on Stage from the Enlightenment to the Early Twenty-First Century

Series:  Metaforms, Volume: 25
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  • Bernstein, N.W. (2018) Seneca: Hercules Furens, London: Bloomsbury.

  • Blanshard, A.J.L. and Stafford, E.J. (eds) (2020) The Modern Hercules: images of the hero from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century (Metaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity 21), Leiden: Brill.

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