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    Shakespeare's Use Of Source Material In The Comedy Of Errors

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    Ryan, Joseph
    Date of Issue
    1933-04-01
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    https://scholars.carroll.edu/handle/20.500.12647/2713
    Title
    Shakespeare's Use Of Source Material In The Comedy Of Errors
    Type
    thesis
    Abstract
    The Elizabethan drama as characterized by Shakespeare amid his contemporaries was the culmination of several forces which had long been exerting their influence on the English playwrights. Prominent among these forces was that of the classical drama, whose tendencies affected both comedy and tragedy. It was from the tragedies of Seneca that the Elizabethans developed their tragedies of sheer horror and blood. The comedies of Plautus and Terrance taught English dramatists "how to build a plot along structural lines of a five act pattern and how to develop a complicated intrigue based on the motif of mistaken identity; it supplied them with new types of comic characters and it brought home to them the difference between crude slap-stick comedy and the more intellectual species of wit.’’ 1 This influence is clearly shown in the following native English plays: Ralph Roister Boister (1534- 1541), Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575), and The Supposes (1566).
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    Bachelor's
    Semester
    Spring
    Department
    Languages & Literature
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