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Introduction1 The legacy of Geoffrey Bullough 2 Myths of origin3 Textual economies4 Trafficking in intertextuality5 The nature of con-text 6 From formula to text: Theatre, form, meme and reciprocity7 The Thorello Plays: Shakespeare, Jonson and the...
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Introduction1 The legacy of Geoffrey Bullough 2 Myths of origin3 Textual economies4 Trafficking in intertextuality5 The nature of con-text 6 From formula to text: Theatre, form, meme and reciprocity7 The Thorello Plays: Shakespeare, Jonson and the circulation of theatrical ideas8 Shakespeare as resource Conclusion -- The elephant in the graveyardBibliographyIndex Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based. Shakespeare's Resources revisits and interrogates the methodology that has prevailed since then and proposes a number of radical departures from Bullough's model. The tacitly accepted linear model of 'source' and 'influence' that critics and scholars have wrestled with is here reconceptualised as a dynamic process in which texts interact and generate meanings that domesticated versions of intertextuality do not adequately account for. The investigation uncovers questions of exactly how Shakespeare 'read', what he read, the practical conditions in which narratives were encountered, and how he re-deployed earlier versions that he had used in his later work
