Shakespeare and the rival playwrights, 1600-1606 / David Farley-Hills.

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Farley-Hills, David

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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 226 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203159977
9780203159972
9780415040501
0415040507

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare and the rival playwrights, 1600-1606.DDC classification:

822.3/3 20

LOC classification:

PR2976 .F28 1990eb

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Contents:

1. Hamlet and the little Eyases -- 2. Portrait of the Iron Age : Troilus and Cressida -- 3. The word ... will bring on summer : All's well that ends well and Chapman's mythic comedy -- 4. Othello : a man killed with kindness -- 5. Royal measures : Measure for measure and Middleton's comedy of disillusionment -- 6. Anger's privilege : Timon of Athens and King Lear.

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Summary: David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.

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David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear.

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