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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... speak of Bido and Aeneas together in the underworld , though Virgil's Dido scorns her lover when she encounters him there . It would be dangerous to assume that Shakes- peare had not read , or had forgotten , the sixth book of the ...
... speak of Bido and Aeneas together in the underworld , though Virgil's Dido scorns her lover when she encounters him there . It would be dangerous to assume that Shakes- peare had not read , or had forgotten , the sixth book of the ...
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... speaks of men whom ' dreadful dreams doe cause to shake ' , as Macbeth speaks of ' terrible dreams / That shake us nightly ' ( III . ii . 18-19 ) ; he says that Beastes consist of brutish minde , To sleepe and foode , addicted all , ( p ...
... speaks of men whom ' dreadful dreams doe cause to shake ' , as Macbeth speaks of ' terrible dreams / That shake us nightly ' ( III . ii . 18-19 ) ; he says that Beastes consist of brutish minde , To sleepe and foode , addicted all , ( p ...
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... speaks of ' two serpents sucking at hir pappes ' . Yet we cannot be sure that Shakespeare derived the idea from any , or all , of these sources , for it is possible that the sucking image was suggested by Charmian's aspostrophe ' O ...
... speaks of ' two serpents sucking at hir pappes ' . Yet we cannot be sure that Shakespeare derived the idea from any , or all , of these sources , for it is possible that the sucking image was suggested by Charmian's aspostrophe ' O ...
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... speak more kindly of the dramatic qualities of the plays , and even to find in them a typically Shakespearian philosophy of history . The plays , moreover , to everyone's surprise , proved to be stage - worthy , not merely in the Barton ...
... speak more kindly of the dramatic qualities of the plays , and even to find in them a typically Shakespearian philosophy of history . The plays , moreover , to everyone's surprise , proved to be stage - worthy , not merely in the Barton ...
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... speak with eloquence , but they speak alike , and seem not so much men talking to men , as actors declaiming . Only with Cade and his followers does Shakespeare provide individual voices , and they speak in prose . Young Clifford , as ...
... speak with eloquence , but they speak alike , and seem not so much men talking to men , as actors declaiming . Only with Cade and his followers does Shakespeare provide individual voices , and they speak in prose . Young Clifford , as ...
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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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