The Sources of Shakespeare's PlaysRoutledge, 04.04.2014 - 336 Seiten First published in 1977. This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven into the texture of his work. Few Elizabethan dramatists took such pains as Shakespeare in the collection of source-material. Frequently the sources were apparently incompatible, but Shakespeare's ability to combine a chronicle play, one or two prose chronicles, two poems and a pastoral romance without any sense of incongruity, was masterly. The plays are examined in approximately chronological order and Shakespeare's developing skill becomes evident. |
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... death , Virgil's epic was not yet written . He often fused medieval with classical sources : when he gives Dido a willow in The Merchant of Venice ( v . i . 10 ) he drew on Chaucer's tales of Dido and Ariadne in The Legend of Good Women ...
... death , Virgil's epic was not yet written . He often fused medieval with classical sources : when he gives Dido a willow in The Merchant of Venice ( v . i . 10 ) he drew on Chaucer's tales of Dido and Ariadne in The Legend of Good Women ...
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... death - bed diatribe . 45 Although it used to be argued by enthusiastic editors 46 that Greene's heroines served as models for Shakespeare's , it is only in Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale that there seems to be much resemblance , and ...
... death - bed diatribe . 45 Although it used to be argued by enthusiastic editors 46 that Greene's heroines served as models for Shakespeare's , it is only in Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale that there seems to be much resemblance , and ...
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... death of Cleopatra , and her referring to the fatal asp as ' baby ' . Dost thou not see my baby at my breast That sucks the nurse asleep ? ( v . ii . 307–8 ) One critic pointed out a parallel with Peele's Edward I , in which an asp is ...
... death of Cleopatra , and her referring to the fatal asp as ' baby ' . Dost thou not see my baby at my breast That sucks the nurse asleep ? ( v . ii . 307–8 ) One critic pointed out a parallel with Peele's Edward I , in which an asp is ...
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... is probably derived from Aegeus , who was drowned in the Aegean sea , which provides the geographical background of the play . Ægeon is con- demned to death because of a trade war between Ephesus Early Plays The Comedy of Errors.
... is probably derived from Aegeus , who was drowned in the Aegean sea , which provides the geographical background of the play . Ægeon is con- demned to death because of a trade war between Ephesus Early Plays The Comedy of Errors.
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Kenneth Muir. demned to death because of a trade war between Ephesus and Syracuse , suggested by another play of errors , Supposes , which was to serve as the main source of The Taming of the Shrew . Antipholus of Ephesus says he was ...
Kenneth Muir. demned to death because of a trade war between Ephesus and Syracuse , suggested by another play of errors , Supposes , which was to serve as the main source of The Taming of the Shrew . Antipholus of Ephesus says he was ...
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28 | |
Romeo and Juliet | 38 |
Richard II | 46 |
A MidsummerNights Dream | 66 |
Loves Labours Lost | 77 |
Comedies and Histories | 86 |
Measure for Measure | 174 |
Othello | 182 |
King Lear | 196 |
Macbeth | 208 |
Timon of Athens | 218 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 220 |
Coriolanus | 238 |
Last Plays | 252 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 103 |
Much Ado about Nothing | 113 |
As You Like It | 125 |
Twelfth Night | 132 |
Troilus and Cressida | 141 |
Tragic Period | 158 |
Alls Well that Ends Well | 170 |
Cymbeline | 258 |
The Winters Tale | 266 |
The Tempest | 278 |
Henry VIII | 283 |
Notes | 289 |
Index | 315 |
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