Richard Rowland is Senior Lecturer in Drama in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He has edited plays by George Chapman and Ben Jonson for the Penguin Dramatists series, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II for the Oxford University Press Complete Works, and Edward IV for the Revels series (Manchester University Press). He is also the author of The Theatre of Thomas Heywood, 1599-1639: Locations, Translations and Conflict (2010).

"Throughout the book, Rowland shows remarkable erudition. Not only does he navigate an ocean of primary sources from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century, but he provides abundant documentation on each source and period, engaging with critical traditions, combining methodologies and offering many new readings."- Charlotte Coffin, Universite Paris-Est Creteil - Cahiers Elisabethains

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: The Trachiniae of SophoclesChapter 2: Hurting Inside(s): Hercules and Deianira in Ancient RomeChapter 3: Wrestling with Hercules in the Middle AgesChapter 4: Dalliance and Puddinges: Translating Herculean Marriage in/to Post-Reformation EnglandChapter 5: Baroque and Berserk: from the King’s Execution to the King’s TheatreChapter 6: ‘After Sophocles’: Deianira and the ‘War on Terror’Appendix. Translation: The Women of TrachisBibliographiesIndex

Richard Rowland is Senior Lecturer in Drama in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He has edited plays by George Chapman and Ben Jonson for the Penguin Dramatists series, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II for the Oxford University Press Complete Works, and Edward IV for the Revels series (Manchester University Press). He is also the author of The Theatre of Thomas Heywood, 1599-1639: Locations, Translations and Conflict (2010).

"Throughout the book, Rowland shows remarkable erudition. Not only does he navigate an ocean of primary sources from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century, but he provides abundant documentation on each source and period, engaging with critical traditions, combining methodologies and offering many new readings."- Charlotte Coffin, Universite Paris-Est Creteil - Cahiers Elisabethains

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: The Trachiniae of SophoclesChapter 2: Hurting Inside(s): Hercules and Deianira in Ancient RomeChapter 3: Wrestling with Hercules in the Middle AgesChapter 4: Dalliance and Puddinges: Translating Herculean Marriage in/to Post-Reformation EnglandChapter 5: Baroque and Berserk: from the King’s Execution to the King’s TheatreChapter 6: ‘After Sophocles’: Deianira and the ‘War on Terror’Appendix. Translation: The Women of TrachisBibliographiesIndex

Richard Rowland is Senior Lecturer in Drama in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He has edited plays by George Chapman and Ben Jonson for the Penguin Dramatists series, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II for the Oxford University Press Complete Works, and Edward IV for the Revels series (Manchester University Press). He is also the author of The Theatre of Thomas Heywood, 1599-1639: Locations, Translations and Conflict (2010).

"Throughout the book, Rowland shows remarkable erudition. Not only does he navigate an ocean of primary sources from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century, but he provides abundant documentation on each source and period, engaging with critical traditions, combining methodologies and offering many new readings."- Charlotte Coffin, Universite Paris-Est Creteil - Cahiers Elisabethains

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: The Trachiniae of SophoclesChapter 2: Hurting Inside(s): Hercules and Deianira in Ancient RomeChapter 3: Wrestling with Hercules in the Middle AgesChapter 4: Dalliance and Puddinges: Translating Herculean Marriage in/to Post-Reformation EnglandChapter 5: Baroque and Berserk: from the King’s Execution to the King’s TheatreChapter 6: ‘After Sophocles’: Deianira and the ‘War on Terror’Appendix. Translation: The Women of TrachisBibliographiesIndex