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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... wives (Paul's was a City theatre): Jonson and his friends reply with a London comedy that laughs at the bourgeoisie. Blackfriars, closer to the West End and the Court, would have a larger Court clientele. Rivalry and alliances between ...
... wives (Paul's was a City theatre): Jonson and his friends reply with a London comedy that laughs at the bourgeoisie. Blackfriars, closer to the West End and the Court, would have a larger Court clientele. Rivalry and alliances between ...
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... wife and persuades her to become his bride, like Hamlet, the hero (Antonio) affects madness as part of the stratagem leading up to the revenge killing, in both plays the hero's preoccupation with revenge involves him in the death of the ...
... wife and persuades her to become his bride, like Hamlet, the hero (Antonio) affects madness as part of the stratagem leading up to the revenge killing, in both plays the hero's preoccupation with revenge involves him in the death of the ...
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... 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 perpetrate the macabre joke of having Feliche's body propped up at the window ...
... 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 perpetrate the macabre joke of having Feliche's body propped up at the window ...
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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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