Reading Robert Greene : recovering Shakespeare's rival /
Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of the playwright's canon through analyses of Greene's verse style, vocabulary, rhyming habits and the dramatist's p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
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| Summary: | Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of the playwright's canon through analyses of Greene's verse style, vocabulary, rhyming habits and the dramatist's phraseology in his attested plays and in comparison to four plays that have long been on the margins of Greene's corpus: Locrine, Selimus, George a Greene and A Knack to Know a Knave. The book defines the ranges for Greene's stylistic habits for the very first time, and proceeds to identify parallels of thought, language and overall dramaturgy that reveal a single author's creative consciousness. This volume also casts light on Greene as a more collaborative dramatist than has hitherto been acknowledged. Through emphasizing the immediate surroundings in which Greene was writing, the flourishing of popular theaters in two compact areas of London, in which each theater company and their dramatists kept a close eye on what their competitors were producing, Greene emerges as an influential playwright, whose restored oeuvre enables us to establish new ways in which his dramatic methods impacted other writers of the period, including Shakespeare. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032154060 1032154063 9781032154091 1032154098 |