Ancient Epic and Drama Research Papers (original) (raw)

Franklin Lewis, "A Book of Kings as the King of Books: The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi,”
commissioned article for A Companion to World Literature, edited by Ken Seigneurie, with Susan Andrade, Chris Lupke, B. Venkat Mani, Wen-chin Ouyang, and Dan Selden (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 13pp. Covers the Middle Persian pre-history, and Persian as a vernacular language, Ferdowsi's role in the composition of the narrative, the literary reception history over a millenium, the iconographic (miniature painting) traditions and their reception, the political significance, the traditions of scholarship, etc. .