Shakspere As a Playwright
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ISBN13: 9781150595486
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX THE PLAYS IN COLLABORATION I There are four of the later plays attributed to Shakspere which are not wholly his and in which we detect the work of another hand. Two of these, 'Timon of Athens' and 'Henry VIII, ' appeared in the First Folio, published only seven years after his death by his theatrical comrades Heming and Condell. 'Pericles' was not included in this collection; indeed, it gained admittance only after the lapse of many years. And the fourth of these plays, the 'Two Noble Kinsmen, ' has never been formally accepted as Shakspere's work, although many competent critics now believe that he was one of its authors and that his share in it may be as large as his share in 'Pericles.' It was first printed by itself in 1634, ascribed to Fletcher and Shakspere; but it did not appear in the first edition of Beaumont and Fletcher, issued in 1647. Since these four plays are not wholly Shakspere's own work, they must be the result of some sort of collaboration, of a literary alliance of one kind or another, wherein he was one of the partners. But the more carefully the plays are considered the more evident it is that they are not all four due to the same method of collaboration. There are, in fact, two distinct kinds of literary partnership, both of them being carelessly called collaboration. First of all, there is the true collaboration, that of Erckmann-Chatrian and of Augier and Sandeau, in which the pair of authors really labor in common, inventing and creating in consultation. They make the plot together, they develop the characters, and they assign to one another the more mechanical task of the actual writing. Then there is a second kind of collaboration, falsely so called, in which the two writers do not consult, and may not even meet for ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150595486 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150595485 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $20.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 242 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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