Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare: Volume VII: Major Tragedies

Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare #7

by Geoffrey Bullough (Editor)

(Seventh 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 VII contains sources of:
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Genres: Shakespeare

576 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1973