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Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare #4
Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare: Vol IV: Later English History Plays
(Fourth of eight volumes) All known sources for Shakespeare's complete works, compiled by Geoffrey Bullough, late Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London.
As well as absorbing introductory notes on each play, Bullough discusses what sources may have given Shakespeare his ideas, ranging from commonly known stories to popular scholarly texts of his era, examining how much information we have about the connection between these works and Shakespeare's.
Volume IV contains sources of:
King John, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, Henry VIII
As well as absorbing introductory notes on each play, Bullough discusses what sources may have given Shakespeare his ideas, ranging from commonly known stories to popular scholarly texts of his era, examining how much information we have about the connection between these works and Shakespeare's.
Volume IV contains sources of:
King John, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, Henry VIII
534 pages, Hardcover
First published October 15, 1962
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