1st Edition

Shakespeare's Sources Comedies and Tragedies

By Kenneth Muir Copyright 2005
    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 as many as eight.

    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