French Origins of English Tragedy

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Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material,

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French Origins represents a valuable contribution to an expansive and painstaking
lifes work.

French Origins offers a persuasively nuanced critique of what Hillman calls the Myth of the Single Source, and memorably demonstrates its central premise that writers read and wrote through and across multiple texts.

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Richard Hillman teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in the Universit Franois-Rabelais, Tours