This compact, engaging book puts Shakespeare's originality in historical context and looks at how he worked with his sources: the plays, poems, chronicles and romances on which his own plays are based.
This compact, engaging book puts Shakespeare's originality in historical context and looks at how he worked with his sources: the plays, poems, chronicles and romances on which his own plays are based.
John Kerrigan was born and brought up in Liverpool. After Oxford, he went to Cambridge where he is Professor of English 2000 and a Fellow of St John's College. He has lectured all over the world, with visiting positions in Japan, India, New Zealand, and the USA. Among his publications are widely-acclaimed books and essays about tragedy since antiquity, Shakespeare, seventeenth-century literature, and modern poetry.
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Introduction 1: Upstarts and Much Ado 2: Shakespeare Afoot 3: King Lear and its Origins 4: The Tempest to 1756
