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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... scene of A Midsummer - Night's Dream , is echoing Propertius in her complaints about Cupid . Laertes ' words about ... scenes of King Lear , critics have been unduly sceptical about two Horatian echoes in earlier plays . " Horace ...
... scene of A Midsummer - Night's Dream , is echoing Propertius in her complaints about Cupid . Laertes ' words about ... scenes of King Lear , critics have been unduly sceptical about two Horatian echoes in earlier plays . " Horace ...
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... scene of Hamlet , 31 Lewkenor in the third scene of Othello , 32 or Rich in the third scene of Twelfth Night ; 33 and we may suppose that , like Coleridge , he created much of his poetry from forgotten reading . 34 The influence of ...
... scene of Hamlet , 31 Lewkenor in the third scene of Othello , 32 or Rich in the third scene of Twelfth Night ; 33 and we may suppose that , like Coleridge , he created much of his poetry from forgotten reading . 34 The influence of ...
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... scene : ( 1. iii . 83 ) And high and low beguiles the rich and poor . He proceeds to extemporize in doggerel verse : ( 92-5 ) And I to Ford shall eke unfold How Falstaff , varlet vile , His dove will prove , his gold will hold , And his ...
... scene : ( 1. iii . 83 ) And high and low beguiles the rich and poor . He proceeds to extemporize in doggerel verse : ( 92-5 ) And I to Ford shall eke unfold How Falstaff , varlet vile , His dove will prove , his gold will hold , And his ...
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... scene , and develops the whole of his second act from Menaechmi , II . 3. For the first scene of the third act , in which Antipholus of Ephesus is kept out of his own house while his twin is within , Shakespeare took a hint from the ...
... scene , and develops the whole of his second act from Menaechmi , II . 3. For the first scene of the third act , in which Antipholus of Ephesus is kept out of his own house while his twin is within , Shakespeare took a hint from the ...
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... scene in the Amphitruo ( IV ) , in which the hero is shut out of his own house while Jupiter is with his wife . The business of the chain was suggested by a ' spinther ' which had formerly belonged to the wife and which the Courtezan's ...
... scene in the Amphitruo ( IV ) , in which the hero is shut out of his own house while Jupiter is with his wife . The business of the chain was suggested by a ' spinther ' which had formerly belonged to the wife and which the Courtezan's ...
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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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