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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... psychological terms. Eleazar's desire for revenge against the Spanish hierarchy is touched on fleetingly as the result of his father's death in battle at Spanish hands; but as he has married into the Spanish nobility and has a prominent ...
... psychological terms. Eleazar's desire for revenge against the Spanish hierarchy is touched on fleetingly as the result of his father's death in battle at Spanish hands; but as he has married into the Spanish nobility and has a prominent ...
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... psychological depth is not due to a lack of the appropriate medium for doing so, but to the whole concept of character as moral symbol. The action of the play is grounded on a simple moral pattern in which evil characters like Eleazar ...
... psychological depth is not due to a lack of the appropriate medium for doing so, but to the whole concept of character as moral symbol. The action of the play is grounded on a simple moral pattern in which evil characters like Eleazar ...
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... psychological subtlety, not so much analytically as to encourage an intense identification between audience and character. We even watch Hamlet's mind changing and developing under the pressure of events, an extremely difficult feat to ...
... psychological subtlety, not so much analytically as to encourage an intense identification between audience and character. We even watch Hamlet's mind changing and developing under the pressure of events, an extremely difficult feat to ...
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... psychological subtlety. The future turned out to be with Shakespeare—acceleratingly so, as the modern world increasingly saw as a main function of literature the exploration of personality in a secular world. Antonio's Revenge is ...
... psychological subtlety. The future turned out to be with Shakespeare—acceleratingly so, as the modern world increasingly saw as a main function of literature the exploration of personality in a secular world. Antonio's Revenge is ...
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... psychological realism is, however, usually maintained. Again Marston strains the conventions almost to breaking point. Piero, the play's villain, is typical of the sensationalist tradition in being arbitrarily devoted to evil ways, for ...
... psychological realism is, however, usually maintained. Again Marston strains the conventions almost to breaking point. Piero, the play's villain, is typical of the sensationalist tradition in being arbitrarily devoted to evil ways, for ...
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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