Shakespeare's Italian dream: Cinquecento sources for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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An Italian pastoral drama, Giovanna Battista Guarini's best seller 'Il pastor fido,' provides the internal incident, background detail, and personality for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' Hugh M. Richmond discovers a probable link between Giraldio Cinthio's 'Hecatommithi' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' since the former anticipates the main love intrigues of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The Italian sources for the play are discussed are very significant.
Publication Name: Comparative Drama
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0010-4078
Year: 1995
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Friendship in 'Hamlet.'
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William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' can be seen as a play about friendship. Renaissance thinkers were particularly interested in this human relationship, feeling it was the basis for generating the good will that kept society together. The friendships of Bernardo and Fernando, and those of Hamlet with Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and especially with Horatio, portray the complex relationships humans can have.
Publication Name: Comparative Drama
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0010-4078
Year: 1999
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