Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear.Cover -- Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Hamlet And The Little Eyases -- 2. Portrait of The Iron Age: Troilus and Cressida -- 3. The Word…Will Bring on Summer: All's Well That Ends Well and Chapman's Mythic Comedy -- 4. Othello: A Man Killed With Kindness -- 5. Royal Measures: Measure for Measure And Middleton's Comedy of Disillusionment -- 6. Anger's Privilege: Timon of Athens and King Lear -- Notes -- IndexDavid Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Satire against Mankind

Erectile dysfunction provided Rochester with material for mock-tirades; disappointment takes a less physiological ground and a more analytic tone, as if in resignation to inevitability, when he reflects in a letter to his wife on ‘soe greate a disproportion t'wixt our desires & what [is] ordained to content them’. His most celebrated poem, his Satire against Mankind, presses to its limits this existential turn against the claims of humanism, and offers no remedy