Understanding Shakespeare - His Sources
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Shows how Shakespeare's plays grew out of the many elements available to him. Focuses on Shakespeare at home, school, great houses of the nobility, and in London mixing with the Roughes elements. Depicts Shakespeare searching libraries, watching plays of rival authors and visiting the Commedia del Arte. Presents excerpts from big plays whose origins can be traced to the sources previously described.
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- Twelfth Night - An Introduction 1969
- Understanding Shakespeare - His Sources 1971
- Understanding Shakespeare: His Stagecraft 1972
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