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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... COMEDY 4. OTHELLO: A MAN KILLED WITH 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 ...
... COMEDY 4. OTHELLO: A MAN KILLED WITH 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 ...
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... comedy that laughs at the bourgeoisie. Blackfriars, closer to the West End and the Court, would have a larger Court clientele. Rivalry and alliances between playwrights and theatres was not gratuitous, for we are dealing here with a ...
... comedy that laughs at the bourgeoisie. Blackfriars, closer to the West End and the Court, would have a larger Court clientele. Rivalry and alliances between playwrights and theatres was not gratuitous, for we are dealing here with a ...
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... comedy in All's Well that Ends Well that has been much misunderstood, because it is not related to what was going on at this time in Chapman's comedies for Blackfriars. Othello brings us back to the tragedy that the adult players could ...
... comedy in All's Well that Ends Well that has been much misunderstood, because it is not related to what was going on at this time in Chapman's comedies for Blackfriars. Othello brings us back to the tragedy that the adult players could ...
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... comedy and the long series of English history plays—each sufficiently different from its predecessor, but forming a clear line of internal development that does not ask so insistently for an explanation in terms of outside pressures and ...
... comedy and the long series of English history plays—each sufficiently different from its predecessor, but forming a clear line of internal development that does not ask so insistently for an explanation in terms of outside pressures and ...
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... comedy at this date and for whom the description would be inappropriate. 8 Wilson also thinks it unlikely that Shakespeare would mock his own standing when Rosencrantz asserts the players have lost popularity, 9 but in this case it ...
... comedy at this date and for whom the description would be inappropriate. 8 Wilson also thinks it unlikely that Shakespeare would mock his own standing when Rosencrantz asserts the players have lost popularity, 9 but in this case it ...
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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