Shakespeare's Cues and Prompts: Intertextuality and Sources (Continuum Shakespeare Studies) - Hardcover

Levith, Murray J.

 
9780826495976: Shakespeare's Cues and Prompts: Intertextuality and Sources (Continuum Shakespeare Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0826495974 ISBN 13: 9780826495976
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2007

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Shakespeare, like Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a weaver. The playwright spins a web of his explicit and implicit narrative and dramatic sources, historical and cultural prompts, and other multi-faceted intertexts woven into the fabric of his comedies, tragedies and histories. This study highlights some examples of largely unrecognized and sometimes subtle strands of Shakespeare's intertextual tapestries in selected plays. Such intertexts represent mostly conscious and adapted sources that when considered help to contribute fresh understandings of the plays examined.

Murray Levith analyses a number of types of Shakespearean intertextual prompts which are embedded in or cue selected works: an unrecognized dramatic source as a prompt for The Merchant of Venice; images in Coriolanus and The Merry Wives of Windsor likely remembered from a favourite Latin classic; A Midsummer Night's Dream and a quasi-historical legend; Shakespeare's use of the myth of St George and the Dragon in Richard III and a contemporary political prompt in Othello; a final chapter notes examples of Shakespeare's recycling and views All's Well that Ends Well's relationship to The Taming of the Shrew.

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Murray J. Levith is Professor of English at Skidmore College, New York, where he has taught Shakespeare for more than thirty-five years. His many publications include Shakespeare's Italian Settings and Plays (author) and A Historical Survey of Shakespeare in China (editor).

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Verlag
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0826495974
ISBN 13 
9780826495976
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