Brian Gibbons presents the idea of multiplicity as a way of
understanding the form and style of Shakespeare's plays: composed
of many different codes, woven together in a unique pattern for
each play, rather than variations on fixed notions of comedy or
tragedy. Selecting from different phases of Shakespeare's career,
the book's method is comparison, using an imaginative range of
texts and new approaches; there is also lively discussion of modern
staging. Comparison with major works by Spenser, Sidney and Marlowe
is complemented by a demonstration of Shakespeare's re-use of his
own previous plays and poems. Far from reducing the plays to a
formula, Brian Gibbons shows how criticism articulates what popular
audiences have always known, that the plays' sheer abundance and
variety is their strength. This 1993 book is scholarly, yet
straightforward, on an issue of central interest.
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