Shakespeare's ReadingOxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Reading explores Shakespeare's marvelous reshaping of sources into new creations. Beginning with a discussion of how and what Elizabethans read--manuscripts, popular pamphlets, and books--Robert S. Miola examines Shakespeare's use of specific texts such as Holinshed's Chronicles, Plutarch's Lives, and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. As well as reshaping other writers' work, Shakespeare transformed traditions--the inherited expectations, tropes, and strategies about character, action and genre. For example, the tradition of Italian love poetry, especially Petrarch, shapes Romeo and Juliet as well as the sonnets; the Vice figure finds new life in Richard III and Falstaff. Employing a traditional understanding of sources as well as more recent developments in intertextuality, this book traces Shakespeare's reading throughout his career, as it inspires his poetry, histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. Repeated references to the plays in performance enliven and enrich the account. |
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Robert S. Miola. OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS Shakespeare's Reading Robert S. Miola | Oxford Shakespeare Topics Shakespeare's Reading OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS Published. OXFORD Front Cover.
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... reading / Robert S. Miola . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references ( p . ) and index . 1. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 - Books and reading . 2. Books and reading - England- History - 16th century . 3. Books and reading ...
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