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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... nature expresses itself in a materialism that sees the difference between life and death on the battlefield in terms of the quality of one's armour. Indeed a certain amount of individuality is imparted. Failure to supply psychological ...
... nature expresses itself in a materialism that sees the difference between life and death on the battlefield in terms of the quality of one's armour. Indeed a certain amount of individuality is imparted. Failure to supply psychological ...
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... nature not merely through his violence, but in his unlicensed sexuality, as, for instance, in the plan he develops with his henchman Lorrique to rape the Duchess of Luningberg, mother of his first victim Charles, who is killed by having ...
... nature not merely through his violence, but in his unlicensed sexuality, as, for instance, in the plan he develops with his henchman Lorrique to rape the Duchess of Luningberg, mother of his first victim Charles, who is killed by having ...
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... nature of the theatrical experience and, by analogy, with the experience of life itself. This is particularly appropriate in the case of Pandulpho, who represents the stoical position that man should be master of his passion, a ...
... nature of the theatrical experience and, by analogy, with the experience of life itself. This is particularly appropriate in the case of Pandulpho, who represents the stoical position that man should be master of his passion, a ...
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... nature of this device becomes all the clearer when we remember that this play was written for boy actors. A particularly macabre use of the acting metaphor is when Strotzo is persuaded by Piero to pantomime his own death in a kind of ...
... nature of this device becomes all the clearer when we remember that this play was written for boy actors. A particularly macabre use of the acting metaphor is when Strotzo is persuaded by Piero to pantomime his own death in a kind of ...
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... nature's secrets, the first innating cause Laughs them to scorn as man doth busy apes When they will zany men. (IV, i, 44–8) The whole of this important speech, indeed, could be read as a commentary on Hamlet's vanity in puzzling over ...
... nature's secrets, the first innating cause Laughs them to scorn as man doth busy apes When they will zany men. (IV, i, 44–8) The whole of this important speech, indeed, could be read as a commentary on Hamlet's vanity in puzzling over ...
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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