French Origins of English Tragedy

Description

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,

Richard Hillman teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in the Universite Francois-Rabelais, Tours -- .

French Origins represents a valuable contribution to an expansive and painstaking life's 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. -- .