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. He ...
... 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. He ...
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... death-bed diatribe.* Although it used to be argued by enthusiastic editors" 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 this is ...
... death-bed diatribe.* Although it used to be argued by enthusiastic editors" 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 this is ...
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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 addressed ...
... 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 addressed ...
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... probably derived from Aegeus, who was drowned in the Aegean sea, which provides the geographical background of the play. AEgeon is condemned to death because of a trade war between Ephesus and II Early Plays 1. The Comedy of Errors.
... probably derived from Aegeus, who was drowned in the Aegean sea, which provides the geographical background of the play. AEgeon is condemned to death because of a trade war between Ephesus and II Early Plays 1. 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 brought ...
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 brought ...
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