The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays
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The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays
Book Details
- Author
- Kenneth Muir
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- British & Irish
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780415489133
- ISBN-10
- 041548913X
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ISBN: 041548913X
Author: Muir, Kenneth
Condition: New
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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