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 Dido 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 Shakespeare had not read, or had forgotten, the sixth book of the Aeneid. His ...
... speak of Dido 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 Shakespeare had not read, or had forgotten, the sixth book of the Aeneid. His ...
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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. 114) and asks ...
... 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. 114) and asks ...
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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 eastern star ...
... 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 eastern star ...
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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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