The sources of Shakespeare's plays
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The sources of Shakespeare's plays
(Routledge library editions, . Shakespeare . Critical studies ; 28)
Routledge, 2005, c1977
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Reprint. Originally published by Methuen, 1977
includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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First published in 1977.
This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven into the texture of his work. Few Elizabethan dramatists took such pains as Shakespeare in the collection of source-material. Frequently the sources were apparently incompatible, but Shakespeare's ability to combine a chronicle play, one or two prose chronicles, two poems and a pastoral romance without any sense of incongruity, was masterly. The plays are examined in approximately chronological order and Shakespeare's developing skill becomes evident.
Table of Contents
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Early Plays
- Chapter 1 The Comedy of Errors
- Chapter 2 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Chapter 3 The Taming of the Shrew
- Chapter 4 Titus Andronicus
- Chapter 5_7 Henry VI: Parts 1-3
- Chapter 8 Richard III
- Chapter 9 Romeo and Juliet
- Chapter 10 Richard II
- Chapter 11 A Midsummer-Night's Dream
- Chapter 12 Love's Labour's Lost
- Chapter 13 King John
- Part III Comedies and Histories
- Chapter 14 The Merchant of Venice
- Chapter 15_16 Henry IV: Parts 1-2
- Chapter 17 The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Chapter 18 Henry V
- Chapter 19 Much Ado about Nothing
- Chapter 20 Julius Caesar
- Chapter 21 As you Like it
- Chapter 22 Twelfth Night
- Chapter 23 Troilus and Cressida
- Part IV Tragic Period
- Chapter 24 Hamlet
- Chapter 25 All's Well That Ends Well
- Chapter 26 Measure for Measure
- Chapter 27 Othello
- Chapter 28 King Lear
- Chapter 29 Macbeth
- Chapter 30 Timon of Athens
- Chapter 31 Antony and Cleopatra
- Chapter 32 Coriolanus
- Part V Last Plays
- Chapter 33 Pericles
- Chapter 34 Cymbeline
- Chapter 35 The Winter's Tale
- Chapter 36 The Tempest
- Chapter 37 Henry VIII
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