The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays, Paperback / softback Book

The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays Paperback / softback

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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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