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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... dramaturgical range. This is followed by an equally unexpected and radical change to a kind of mythic 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 ...
... dramaturgical range. This is followed by an equally unexpected and radical change to a kind of mythic 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 ...
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... dramaturgy and in the treatment of related themes. Only in one respect is the influence minimal: Shakespeare rarely borrows verbally from his fellow playwrights.The reasons for this are not far to seek. In many cases it would be ...
... dramaturgy and in the treatment of related themes. Only in one respect is the influence minimal: Shakespeare rarely borrows verbally from his fellow playwrights.The reasons for this are not far to seek. In many cases it would be ...
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... dramaturgical techniques, there are also signs of a reaction to Marston in the play, as we shall see. By 1602, in Troilus and Cressida, a play we can be certain was written after the advent of the new rivals, Shakespeare is clearly ...
... dramaturgical techniques, there are also signs of a reaction to Marston in the play, as we shall see. By 1602, in Troilus and Cressida, a play we can be certain was written after the advent of the new rivals, Shakespeare is clearly ...
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... dramaturgical methods are in uncomfortable juxtaposition here, the sensationalism of the Jew-baiting source material ... dramaturgy later. Lust's Dominion is a highly professional play, as we might expect of the product of a team of ...
... dramaturgical methods are in uncomfortable juxtaposition here, the sensationalism of the Jew-baiting source material ... dramaturgy later. Lust's Dominion is a highly professional play, as we might expect of the product of a team of ...
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... dramaturgical methods are in opposition. The playwrights pile horror on horror, including the ultimate Elizabethan horror of regicide, when Eleazar stabs to death the new king Ferdinand in full sight of the audience (weakening, one ...
... dramaturgical methods are in opposition. The playwrights pile horror on horror, including the ultimate Elizabethan horror of regicide, when Eleazar stabs to death the new king Ferdinand in full sight of the audience (weakening, one ...
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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