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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... seems) Shakespeare on the other. Shakespeare's part in the war of the theatres is somewhat obscure, but it was the Globe as well as Paul's Boys that provided space for Dekker's bludgeonly attack on Jonson in Satiromastix and that is ...
... seems) Shakespeare on the other. Shakespeare's part in the war of the theatres is somewhat obscure, but it was the Globe as well as Paul's Boys that provided space for Dekker's bludgeonly attack on Jonson in Satiromastix and that is ...
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... seem to be adapting the complaint to their own circumstances. The folio text, though published much later, must reflect Shakespeare's original more closely for it is much more precisely related to the theatrical situation in London in ...
... seem to be adapting the complaint to their own circumstances. The folio text, though published much later, must reflect Shakespeare's original more closely for it is much more precisely related to the theatrical situation in London in ...
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... seem to have been acting regularly in the capital over the period and in contrast to the Q1 references the folio passage does not seem in general appropriate to the circumstances of the actors playing it. Rosencrantz gives as the reason ...
... seem to have been acting regularly in the capital over the period and in contrast to the Q1 references the folio passage does not seem in general appropriate to the circumstances of the actors playing it. Rosencrantz gives as the reason ...
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... seems to have been concerned throughout his career to be regarded as a gentleman and it would have been a matter of concern if he thought there was a danger of the Globe becoming regarded as unfashionable or fit only for the stinkards ...
... seems to have been concerned throughout his career to be regarded as a gentleman and it would have been a matter of concern if he thought there was a danger of the Globe becoming regarded as unfashionable or fit only for the stinkards ...
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... seem to have been outstandingly popular and its survival and printing in 1657 by Francis Kirkman would seem to have been largely fortuitous. Henry Chettle's Tragedy of Hoffman on the other hand, for which Henslowe (seemingly) recorded a ...
... seem to have been outstandingly popular and its survival and printing in 1657 by Francis Kirkman would seem to have been largely fortuitous. Henry Chettle's Tragedy of Hoffman on the other hand, for which Henslowe (seemingly) recorded a ...
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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