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The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays

The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays

Muir, Kenneth

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Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 041548913X
ISBN13: 9780415489133
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 25 2009
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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