Shakespeare's resources / John Drakakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drakakis, John, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Sources.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

x, 384 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based. Shakespeare's Resources revisits and interrogates the methodology that has prevailed since then and proposes a number of radical departures from Bullough's model. The tacitly accepted linear model of 'source' and 'influence' that critics and scholars have wrestled with is here reconceptualised as a dynamic process in which texts interact and generate meanings that domesticated versions of intertextuality do not adequately account for. The investigation uncovers questions of exactly how Shakespeare 'read', what he read, the practical conditions in which narratives were encountered, and how he re-deployed earlier versions that he had used in his later work.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The legacy of Geoffrey Bullough

2. Myths of origin

3. Textual economies

4. Trafficking in intertextuality

5. The nature of con-text

6. From formula to text: theatre, form, meme and reciprocity

7. The Thorello Plays: Shakespeare, Jonson and the circulation of theatrical ideas

8. Shakespeare as resource.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-378) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526157861

9781526157867

OCLC:

1241732603