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Shakespeare's Books - A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (Paperback)
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Shakespeare's Books - A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (Paperback)
Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
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This encyclopedia-style Dictionary is a comprehensive reference
guide to Shakespeare's literary knowledge and recent scholarship on
it. Nearly 200 entries cover the full range of literary writing
Shakespeare was acquainted with, and which influenced his own work,
including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works.
It provides an overview of his use of authors such as Virgil,
Chaucer, Erasmus, Marlowe and Samuel Daniel, whose influence is
across the canon. Other entries cover anonymous or collective works
such as the Bible, Emblems, Homilies, Chronicle History plays and
the Morality tradition in drama. Entries cover writers and works
whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent
years due to new research. Others describe and explain current
thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid,
Holinshed, Ariosto and Montaigne. Entries for all major sources,
over 80 in number, feature surveys of the writer's place in
Shakespeare's time, detailed discussion of the relationship to
Shakespeare's plays and poems, and full bibliography. Sample
passages from writers and texts of early modern England allow the
volume to be used also as a reader in the literature commonly known
in Shakespeare's era; these excerpts, together with reproductions
of pages and illustrations from the original texts, convey the
flavour of the material as Shakespeare would have encountered it.
Now available in paperback and with a new Preface bringing the book
up-to-date, this is an invaluable reference tool for anyone
interested in the literary influences and sources which fed and
inspired Shakespeare's work.
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