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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... emotionally towards them. In achieving this shift Shakespeare was simply responding to his own supreme talent for creating the illusion of reality in his characters. No clearer ... emotional assumption that Shylock's expulsion from the play.
... emotionally towards them. In achieving this shift Shakespeare was simply responding to his own supreme talent for creating the illusion of reality in his characters. No clearer ... emotional assumption that Shylock's expulsion from the play.
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David Farley-Hills. on the emotional assumption that Shylock's expulsion from the play eliminates the source of evil and disruption. Two dramaturgical methods are in uncomfortable juxtaposition here, the sensationalism of the Jew-baiting ...
David Farley-Hills. on the emotional assumption that Shylock's expulsion from the play eliminates the source of evil and disruption. Two dramaturgical methods are in uncomfortable juxtaposition here, the sensationalism of the Jew-baiting ...
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... emotional clutter. For Marston's is a sophisticated dramatic technique designed to remind the audience constantly that they are in a theatre watching a group of actors on a stage, not participating vicariously in exotic adventures ...
... emotional clutter. For Marston's is a sophisticated dramatic technique designed to remind the audience constantly that they are in a theatre watching a group of actors on a stage, not participating vicariously in exotic adventures ...
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... Emotion here is treated as a form of acting, there is no expectation that it will correspond to anything in the mind of the character. Piero is only unusual here in the extreme to which he takes such attitudes, but the inner motivation ...
... Emotion here is treated as a form of acting, there is no expectation that it will correspond to anything in the mind of the character. Piero is only unusual here in the extreme to which he takes such attitudes, but the inner motivation ...
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... emotional detachment. This is well illustrated by the scene that is the philosophical climax of Antonio's Revenge ... emotion at this point, but the emotion is merely part of that illustration of human frailty that can only be overcome ...
... emotional detachment. This is well illustrated by the scene that is the philosophical climax of Antonio's Revenge ... emotion at this point, but the emotion is merely part of that illustration of human frailty that can only be overcome ...
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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