Sources of Shakespeare's Plays
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Act III
andronicus
Author_Kenneth Muir
Bad Quartos
Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum Historia
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Cinthio's Tale
comedy
comparative drama studies
Duc De Mayenne
Edward III
Elizabethan drama sources
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errors
faerie
famous
Famous Victories
Fire Flie
Gabriel Chappuys
Giraldi Cinthio's Hecatommithi
gloriosus
Henry IV's Reign
Histoires Tragiques
historical chronicle plays
Human Suffering
Il Pecorone
intertextuality in literature
Knight Errant
Le Roy
literary adaptation analysis
main
Midsummer Night's Dream
miles
Pro Spero
Rained Drops
Renaissance literary influences
Richard III
Shakespeare's Main Source
Shakespearean source material research
titus
Troublesome Raigne
victories
Vp
Wild Man
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415489133
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
