Shakespeare's borrowed feathers
Shakespeare's borrowed feathers

Author: Darren Freebury-Jones

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-10-08

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1526177315

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A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare’s beloved plays. Shakespeare’s plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him? Using the latest techniques in textual analysis Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers a fresh look at William Shakespeare and reveals the influence of a community of playwrights that shaped his work. This compelling book argues that we need to see early modern drama as a communal enterprise, with playwrights borrowing from and adapting one another's work. From John Lyly's wit to the collaborative genius of John Fletcher, to Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers fresh insights into Shakespeare’s artistic development and shows us new ways of looking at the masterpieces that have enchanted audiences for centuries.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

Author: Ton Hoenselaars

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1107494338

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While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.

Shakespearean Power and Punishment
Shakespearean Power and Punishment

Author: Gillian Murray Kendall

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780838636794

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The essays in this volume demonstrate how effectively different -- indeed seemingly contradictory -- theoretical paradigms can work with Shakespeare's plays to excavate issues of power and punishment.

The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare
The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare

Author: Christopher J. Cobb

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780874139716

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This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind of experience the late plays in performance seek to create for their spectators. Taking The Winter's Tale as a case study, the book's central chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare tests and transforms the techniques to create the sweeping, restorative transformations of individuals and communities that are central to both earlier dramatic romances and Shakespeare's own romance experiments. The book's three other chapters address the methodologies for study of spectator's experience through a dramatic text, the history of dramatic romance to 1610, and Shakespeare's further experiments with the staging of romance after The Winter's Tale.-

Shakespeare's Repentance Plays
Shakespeare's Repentance Plays

Author: Alan R. Velie

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780838611265

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Follows the treatment of repentance in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest to show the relationship of theme and form, and the dramatist's experimentation with forms until he accomplished his goal--the probing psychological exploration of men who sin, repent, and achieve redemption.

Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey

Author: Allardyce Nicoll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780521523509

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The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.