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Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of
Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel
Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare
Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects
of the play: the love/friendship debate.
A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is
investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text.
New sources for Shakespeare do not turn up every day... This is a
truly significant one that has not heretofore been studied or
published. The list of passages now traced back to this source is
impressive. - David Bevington, Professor Emeritus, University of
Chicago "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" is the only
uniquely existent, unpublished manuscript that can be shown to have
been a source for Shakespeare's plays. George North wrote the
treatise in 1576 while at Kirtling Hall, the North family estate in
Cambridgeshire. His manuscript, newly uncovered by the authors at
the British Library, has many implications for our understanding of
Shakespeare's plays. for example, not only does it bring clarity to
the Fool's mysterious reference to Merlin in King Lear, but also
upsets the prevailing opinion that Shakespeare invented the final
hours of Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI. Linguistic and thematic
correspondences between the North manuscript and Shakespeare's
plays make it clear that the playwright borrowed from this document
in other plays as well, including Richard III, 3 Henry VI, Henry V,
King John, Macbeth, and Coriolanus. The opening chapters of the
book investigate such connections; the volume also contains both a
transcript and a facsimile of "A Brief Discourse", making this
previously unknown document readily available. DENNIS MCCARTHY is
an independent scholar; JUNE SCHLUETER is Charles A. Dana Professor
Emerita of English at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.
Series Information: Shakespeare Criticism
Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes
available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of
Queen Mary's delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval
of England's return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details
of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an
identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas North as its author.
It also points to numerous connections between the journal and the
plays of Shakespeare, extending the playwright's debt beyond
North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and revealing how the
journal served as a template for The Winter's Tale and Henry VIII.
Both, the authors argue, were written by North during the Marian
years (1554-58) and later adapted by Shakespeare. Like the authors'
2018 "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North,
this book presents original work using digital research tools,
including massive databases and plagiarism software. The earlier
book garnered worldwide attention, with a front-page story in The
New York Times.
Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes
available a transcript of a previously unpublished early modern
journal kept by a member of Queen Mary's delegation to Rome, its
purpose to win papal approval of England's return to Roman
Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a
discussion of the two extant copies of the manuscript, and an
identification of the 20-year-old Thomas North as its author. The
journal is of considerable interest in and of itself. But, in
addition, the authors' research has revealed numerous connections
with the plays of Shakespeare, connections that extend the
playwright's debt beyond North's translation of Plutarch's Lives
and reveal how entries in the journal served as a template for
Henry VIII and The Winter's Tale. Both, the authors argue, were
written by North during the Marian years (1554-58) and later
adapted by Shakespeare. Like the authors' 2018 "A Brief Discourse
of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North, this book presents
original work using digital research tools, including massive
databases and plagiarism software. The earlier book garnered
worldwide attention, with a front-page story in TheNew York Times.
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN
1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume
surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together
essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text.
Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers,
education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines
will find these volumes particularly helpful.
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