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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... father's death in battle at Spanish hands; but as he has married into the Spanish nobility and has a prominent place in Spanish society (eventually becoming king) his hatred of the Spaniards is a matter of stance rather than genuine ...
... father's death in battle at Spanish hands; but as he has married into the Spanish nobility and has a prominent place in Spanish society (eventually becoming king) his hatred of the Spaniards is a matter of stance rather than genuine ...
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... father was condemned to death for piracy—but Chettle is clearly much more interested in the consequences of the hero's stance than in his motivation. The desire for revenge is made the excuse for a series of sensational (and mostly ...
... father was condemned to death for piracy—but Chettle is clearly much more interested in the consequences of the hero's stance than in his motivation. The desire for revenge is made the excuse for a series of sensational (and mostly ...
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... father is poisoned, as in Hamlet the ghost of the father visits the son to demand revenge on his killer, as in Hamlet the poisoner seduces the dead man's wife and persuades her to become his bride, like Hamlet, the hero (Antonio) ...
... father is poisoned, as in Hamlet the ghost of the father visits the son to demand revenge on his killer, as in Hamlet the poisoner seduces the dead man's wife and persuades her to become his bride, like Hamlet, the hero (Antonio) ...
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... father's ghost (III, ii). When she asks him why he is not in bed he breaks into a long (and relevant) quotation from Thyestes in Latin, to which his mother responds 'Alas my son's distraught'. Comic dislocation here becomes a symbol of ...
... father's ghost (III, ii). When she asks him why he is not in bed he breaks into a long (and relevant) quotation from Thyestes in Latin, to which his mother responds 'Alas my son's distraught'. Comic dislocation here becomes a symbol of ...
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... father, is merely that they were once rivals for the love of Andrugio's wife, Maria. Other acts are even less plausibly motivated; he kills Pandulpho's son, Feliche, simply to 'hale on mischief' and (seemingly) to enable him to ...
... father, is merely that they were once rivals for the love of Andrugio's wife, Maria. Other acts are even less plausibly motivated; he kills Pandulpho's son, Feliche, simply to 'hale on mischief' and (seemingly) to enable him 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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