Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

by David Farley-Hills

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415040501
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/1990
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Farley-Hills

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Hamlet and the Little Eyases; Chapter 2 Portraits of the Iron Age: Troilus and Cressida; Chapter 3 ‘The Word … will bring on Summer’; Chapter 4 Othello; Chapter 5 Royal Measures; Chapter 6 Anger’s Privilege;