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Shakespeare and the rival playwrights, 1600-1606

This book offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals, showing how he responded to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time.
Print Book, English, 1990
Routledge, London, 1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vi, 226 pages ; 24 cm
9780415040501, 0415040507
20798099
Hamlet and the little eyases ; portrait of the iron age : Troilus and Cressida ; the word will bring on summer : All's Well That Ends Well and Chapman's mythic comedy ; Othello : a man killed with kindness ; royal measures : Measure for Measure and Middleton's comedy of disillusionment ; anger's privilege : Timon of Athens and King Lear
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