1st Edition

Shakespeare's Sources Comedies and Tragedies

By Kenneth Muir Copyright 2005
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1957. This book finds discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were, considers the dramatic reasons for Shakespeare's departure from them and provides many examples of the way in which he made use of his general reading for particular scenes and speeches. Kenneth Muir shows that Shakespeare frequently uses more than one source and sometimes... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Early Plays 3. Mature Comedies 4. Problem Plays 5. Great Tragedies I 6. Great Tragedies II 7. The Roman Plays 8. Last Plays 9. Conclusion

Biography

Kenneth Muir