The sources of Shakespeare's plays / / Kenneth Muir
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| Autore: |
Muir Kenneth
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| Titolo: |
The sources of Shakespeare's plays / / Kenneth Muir
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822.33 |
| Note generali: | First published in 1977 by Methuen. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-313) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Early plays -- 3. Comedies and histories -- 4. Tragic period -- 5. Last plays. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 chrono |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sources of Shakespeare's plays |
| ISBN: | 0-415-48913-X |
| 1-315-82395-0 | |
| 1-317-83341-4 | |
| 1-317-83342-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790939503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge library editions. Shakespeare ; ; 28.