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Shakespeare's originality / John Kerrigan.

By: Series: Oxford Wells Shakespeare lecturesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 167 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198793758 (hardcover)
  • 9780198793755 (hardcover)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR2976 .K475 2018
Contents:
Introduction -- Upstarts and Much ado -- Shakespeare afoot -- King Lear and its origins -- The tempest to 1756 -- Notes.
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 theatre productions, debts to classical tragedy, scepticism, magic and science, the agricultural revolution, and ecological catastrophe. This is authoritative, lively work by one of the world's leading Shakespearians, accessible to the general reader as well as indispensable for students." -- Publisher's descriptionSummary: This compact, engaging book puts Shakespeare's originality in historical context and looks at how he worked with his sources: the plays, poems, chronicles and romances on which his own plays are based. Publisher.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PR2976 .K475 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001482743

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-156) and index.

Introduction -- Upstarts and Much ado -- Shakespeare afoot -- King Lear and its origins -- The tempest to 1756 -- Notes.

"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 theatre productions, debts to classical tragedy, scepticism, magic and science, the agricultural revolution, and ecological catastrophe. This is authoritative, lively work by one of the world's leading Shakespearians, accessible to the general reader as well as indispensable for students." -- Publisher's description

This compact, engaging book puts Shakespeare's originality in historical context and looks at how he worked with his sources: the plays, poems, chronicles and romances on which his own plays are based. Publisher.

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