Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606 PDF Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134953925
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Book Description
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.