Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear. |
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... God's truth and there is no evidence at all that Shakespeare's company was seriously affected financially at this time. Unlike the Elsinore troupe, they seem to have been acting regularly in the capital over the period and in contrast ...
... God's truth and there is no evidence at all that Shakespeare's company was seriously affected financially at this time. Unlike the Elsinore troupe, they seem to have been acting regularly in the capital over the period and in contrast ...
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... God's ordinance: Had I Briareus' hands, I'd strive with heaven For executing wrath before the hour... (lines 1519–20) Hoffman too, like Eleazar, expresses his evil nature not merely through his violence, but in his unlicensed sexuality ...
... God's ordinance: Had I Briareus' hands, I'd strive with heaven For executing wrath before the hour... (lines 1519–20) Hoffman too, like Eleazar, expresses his evil nature not merely through his violence, but in his unlicensed sexuality ...
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... God's justice. It is interesting (at the risk of breaking the strict sequence of my argument) to contrast Marston's central preoccupation with the theme of vanitas in Antonio's Revenge, with Shakespeare's use of the theme in Hamlet, for ...
... God's justice. It is interesting (at the risk of breaking the strict sequence of my argument) to contrast Marston's central preoccupation with the theme of vanitas in Antonio's Revenge, with Shakespeare's use of the theme in Hamlet, for ...
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... God, might it not? Horatio: It might, my lord. Hamlet: Or of a courtier, which could say, 'Good morrow, sweet lord. How dost thou, sweet lord?' This might be my Lord Such-a-one, that praised my Lord Such-a-one's horse when a meant to ...
... God, might it not? Horatio: It might, my lord. Hamlet: Or of a courtier, which could say, 'Good morrow, sweet lord. How dost thou, sweet lord?' This might be my Lord Such-a-one, that praised my Lord Such-a-one's horse when a meant to ...
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... God's will: Ay, Heaven, thou mayst; thou mayst, Omnipotence. What vermin bred of putrefacted slime Shall dare to ... God by a single-minded determination to extirpate the tyrant Piero. That Marston is concerned not to allow this scene to ...
... God's will: Ay, Heaven, thou mayst; thou mayst, Omnipotence. What vermin bred of putrefacted slime Shall dare to ... God by a single-minded determination to extirpate the tyrant Piero. That Marston is concerned not to allow this scene to ...
Contents
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA | |
ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL | |
A MAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS | |
MEASURE FOR MEASURE AND MIDDLETONS COMEDY | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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