Shakespeare's resources

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Geoffrey Bulloughs<i>The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare</i> (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeares plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based.<i>Shakespeares Resources</i> revisits and interrogates the methodology that has prevailed since then and proposes a number of radical departures from Bulloughs 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,<i>what</i> 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.

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John Drakakis is Emeritus Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling

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