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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... KINDNESS 5. ROYAL MEASURES: MEASURE FOR MEASURE AND MIDDLETON'S COMEDY OF DISILLUSIONMENT. CONTENTS. Notes Index 6. ANGER'S PRIVILEGE: TIMON OF ATHENS AND KING LEAR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I should like to thank my departmental colleague Johanna.
... KINDNESS 5. ROYAL MEASURES: MEASURE FOR MEASURE AND MIDDLETON'S COMEDY OF DISILLUSIONMENT. CONTENTS. Notes Index 6. ANGER'S PRIVILEGE: TIMON OF ATHENS AND KING LEAR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I should like to thank my departmental colleague Johanna.
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... Middleton writing commendatory verses for his fellow Londoner John Webster.3 Marston dedicates his Malcontent to his 'frank and sincere friend Benjamin Jonson, the most elegant and weighty poet' (one is tempted to decode those first two ...
... Middleton writing commendatory verses for his fellow Londoner John Webster.3 Marston dedicates his Malcontent to his 'frank and sincere friend Benjamin Jonson, the most elegant and weighty poet' (one is tempted to decode those first two ...
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... Middleton on Timon of Athens (as the new Oxford Shakespeare contends), with George Wilkins on Pericles and perhaps with Ben Jonson on the Globe version of Sejanus. 7 Even the fastidious Jonson joined forces with his friend Chapman and ...
... Middleton on Timon of Athens (as the new Oxford Shakespeare contends), with George Wilkins on Pericles and perhaps with Ben Jonson on the Globe version of Sejanus. 7 Even the fastidious Jonson joined forces with his friend Chapman and ...
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... Middleton at Paul's (reopened in 1599), by Chapman at Blackfriars (opened in 1600) and by the gadfly Jonson, Shakespeare's work in these years would be very different and in my view considerably less impressive. The newer-come ...
... Middleton at Paul's (reopened in 1599), by Chapman at Blackfriars (opened in 1600) and by the gadfly Jonson, Shakespeare's work in these years would be very different and in my view considerably less impressive. The newer-come ...
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... Middleton met so successfully in his comedies for Paul's Boys and Blackfriars. After 'realistic' comedy, Shakespeare makes another attempt (with Middleton) at satire in the least successful of his plays, the unfinished Timon of Athens ...
... Middleton met so successfully in his comedies for Paul's Boys and Blackfriars. After 'realistic' comedy, Shakespeare makes another attempt (with Middleton) at satire in the least successful of his plays, the unfinished Timon of Athens ...
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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