Shakespeare's Library - Softcover

T. Rodd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371606454 ISBN 13: 9780371606452

Publisher: HardPress, 2016

Synopsis

"Shakespeare's Library: A Collection Of The Ancient Romances, Novels, Legends, Poems, And Histories, Used By Shakespeare As The Foundation Of His Dramas" by T. Rodd presents a scholarly edition that surveys early modern sources and adaptations that shaped Shakespeare's drama. Part 1 centers on Romeo and Juliet and its precursors, opening with an introduction that argues Shakespeare relied more on Brooke’s verse Romeus and Juliet than Paynter’s prose version, and traces the lineage from Bandello (via Belleforest and Boisteau) to English renderings. The two primary texts included are Brooke’s Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet and Paynter’s Palace of Pleasure (the prose adaptation of Boisteau’s French Bandello). The volume also surveys a broad network of related narratives—The Moor of Venice, The Three Caskets, Queen Cordila, The Paphalgonian Unkind King, The History of Macbeth, The Shepherdess Felismena, Montemayor’s Diana material, and other tales from Arcadia, Pecorone, and allied traditions—that illuminate Shakespearean motifs such as forbidden love, disguise, political peril, and the cross-cultural transmission of romance and tragedy. Editorial framing foregrounds sources and intertextual links to Othello, Lear, Macbeth, and Verona-like plots.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371606454
• ISBN 13: 9780371606452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434