Shakespeare's Books - A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	The Arden Shakespeare
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
Release date:	February 2016
Authors:	Stuart Gillespie
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-1-4725-7292-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	1-4725-7292-0
Barcode:	9781472572929

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