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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... plot where the 'innovation' would be the political crisis caused by King Hamlet's recent death. It would clearly have been the kind of prudent move one would expect from Claudius to 'inhibit' the city players during the crisis in order ...
... plot where the 'innovation' would be the political crisis caused by King Hamlet's recent death. It would clearly have been the kind of prudent move one would expect from Claudius to 'inhibit' the city players during the crisis in order ...
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... plot to the exploration of character, whereas Lust's Dominion is concerned above all with action. The clarity with which the opposing forces are distinguished has the function of heightening the dramatic impact of their clash. The play ...
... plot to the exploration of character, whereas Lust's Dominion is concerned above all with action. The clarity with which the opposing forces are distinguished has the function of heightening the dramatic impact of their clash. The play ...
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... plot the destructive effects of this evil until, at the end, the forces of virtue triumph, the revenger is killed and the evil is extirpated. The origin of this revenge pattern would seem to owe more to the old morality play, via ...
... plot the destructive effects of this evil until, at the end, the forces of virtue triumph, the revenger is killed and the evil is extirpated. The origin of this revenge pattern would seem to owe more to the old morality play, via ...
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... plots of the two plays is the very different treatment of these plots, showing not only the completely different dramaturgical principles upon which the two playwrights were writing, but also demonstrating the wide gap between what the ...
... plots of the two plays is the very different treatment of these plots, showing not only the completely different dramaturgical principles upon which the two playwrights were writing, but also demonstrating the wide gap between what the ...
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... plots, however, could hardly be greater. Whereas Shakespeare does everything he can to encourage us to identify with the revenge hero, including an extensive use of soliloquy to reveal the inner thoughts of the character quite ...
... plots, however, could hardly be greater. Whereas Shakespeare does everything he can to encourage us to identify with the revenge hero, including an extensive use of soliloquy to reveal the inner thoughts of the character quite ...
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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