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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... marriage . Although Shakespeare adds more farcical elements - Dromio's wife and Dr Pinch , for example - he also added elements that are not farcical at all . The doomed Ægeon opens the play on a serious note and his discovery of his ...
... marriage . Although Shakespeare adds more farcical elements - Dromio's wife and Dr Pinch , for example - he also added elements that are not farcical at all . The doomed Ægeon opens the play on a serious note and his discovery of his ...
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... marry . Here we have the germ of the Julia - Silvia- Proteus triangle ; but there is no equivalent of Valentine , no conflict between love and friendship , and Silvia does not fall in love with the messenger , as Olivia in Twelfth Night ...
... marry . Here we have the germ of the Julia - Silvia- Proteus triangle ; but there is no equivalent of Valentine , no conflict between love and friendship , and Silvia does not fall in love with the messenger , as Olivia in Twelfth Night ...
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... marriage to a widow and Lucentio's to Bianca provide two apparently docile wives to contrast with the genuinely obedient Katherine . The main plot , of the taming , seems to have no identifiable source . The taming of a shrew is a ...
... marriage to a widow and Lucentio's to Bianca provide two apparently docile wives to contrast with the genuinely obedient Katherine . The main plot , of the taming , seems to have no identifiable source . The taming of a shrew is a ...
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... married his captor's daughter , as we know from 1 Henry IV . This scene , too , was dramatically necessary to link the Henry VI trilogy with the ultimate cause of the Wars of the Roses in the deposition of Richard II . If Part I was ...
... married his captor's daughter , as we know from 1 Henry IV . This scene , too , was dramatically necessary to link the Henry VI trilogy with the ultimate cause of the Wars of the Roses in the deposition of Richard II . If Part I was ...
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... marriage settlement arranged by Suffolk makes enemies of Suffolk and the Queen ; whose ambitious wife makes him vulnerable ; and whose murder is followed by the banishment and killing of Suffolk , and the horrifying death of the ...
... marriage settlement arranged by Suffolk makes enemies of Suffolk and the Queen ; whose ambitious wife makes him vulnerable ; and whose murder is followed by the banishment and killing of Suffolk , and the horrifying death of the ...
Inhalt
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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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