The sources of Shakespeare's plays / Kenneth Muir.

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Muir, Kenneth

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge library editions. 28. Shakespeare.Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (vi, 336 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781317833413
1317833414
9781315823959
1315823950
1317833422
9781317833420

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sources of Shakespeare's playsDDC classification:

822.33 22

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PR2952 .M84 2005eb

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Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Early plays -- 3. Comedies and histories -- 4. Tragic period -- 5. Last plays.

Summary: Annotation 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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Originally published: London: Methuen, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Introduction -- 2. Early plays -- 3. Comedies and histories -- 4. Tragic period -- 5. Last plays.

Annotation 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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