Screen LibraryShakespeare's originality /
"How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles and prose romances. Shakespeare's Ori...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Oxford Wells Shakespeare lectures
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| Summary: |
"How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles and prose romances. Shakespeare's Originality unlocks its topic with rewarding precision and flair, showing through a series of case studies that range across the output-from the mature comedies to the great tragedies, from Richard III to The Tempest--what can be learned about the artistry of the plays by thinking about these sources (including newly identified ones) after several decades of neglect. Discussion is enriched by such matters as Elizabethan ruffs and feathers, actors' footwork, chronicle history, modern theater productions, debts to classical tragedy, skepticism, magic and science, the agricultural revolution, and ecological catastrophe. This is authoritative, lively work by one of the world's leading Shakespeareans, accessible to the general reader as well as indispensable for students." -- Publisher's description. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 167 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-156) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198793755 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0198793758 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | PR2976 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/K415-2 |
| Contents: | Upstarts and Much ado -- Shakespeare afoot -- King Lear and its origins -- The tempest to 1756. |