Shakespeare's Originality

Shakespeare's Originality explores how the dramatist worked with his sources, including plays, poems, chronicles, and prose romances, to create his plays. It offers insights into the artistry of the plays by examining these sources after decades of neglect, and is accessible to the general reader and students alike.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 182 pages
\n Publication date: 01 February 2018
\n Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Shakespeare's originality is a captivating topic that this insightful book delves into, placing it within historical context and exploring the intricate ways in which the renowned dramatist worked with various sources. These sources encompass plays, poems, chronicles, and prose romances, providing a rich tapestry for Shakespeare's creative genius. Shakespeare's Originality unravels its subject with remarkable precision and flair, showcasing through a series of compelling case studies the insights that can be gained by examining these sources, including newly identified ones, after decades of neglect. The discussion is further enriched by diverse topics such as Elizabethan ruffs and feathers, actors' footwork, chronicle history, modern theatre productions, debts to classical tragedy, skepticism, magic, and science, the agricultural revolution, and ecological catastrophe. This authoritative and engaging work, penned by one of the world's foremost Shakespearean scholars, is accessible to the general reader while also serving as an invaluable resource for students.

Shakespeare's originality is a captivating topic that this insightful book delves into, placing it within historical context and exploring the intricate ways in which the renowned dramatist worked with various sources. These sources encompass plays, poems, chronicles, and prose romances, providing a rich tapestry for Shakespeare's creative genius. Shakespeare's Originality unravels its subject with remarkable precision and flair, showcasing through a series of compelling case studies the insights that can be gained by examining these sources, including newly identified ones, after decades of neglect. The discussion is further enriched by diverse topics such as Elizabethan ruffs and feathers, actors' footwork, chronicle history, modern theatre productions, debts to classical tragedy, skepticism, magic, and science, the agricultural revolution, and ecological catastrophe. This authoritative and engaging work, penned by one of the world's foremost Shakespearean scholars, is accessible to the general reader while also serving as an invaluable resource for students.

\n Weight: 300g\n
Dimension: 136 x 202 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780198793755\n \n