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- Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594
- Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Beginning with Shakespeare
- Chapter 1 Shakespeare and the Idea of Early Authorship
- Chapter 2 Collaboration and Shakespeare’s Early Career
- Chapter 3 The Language and Style of Early Shakespeare
- Chapter 4 Shakespeare’s Early Verse Style
- Chapter 5 Early Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Narrative Theory:
- Chapter 6 Poetry, Counsel, and Coercion in Shakespeare’s Early History Plays
- Chapter 7 John Lyly and Shakespeare’s Early Career
- Chapter 8 Spenser and Shakespeare: Bards of a Feather?
- Chapter 9 Arden of Faversham, Richard Burbage, and the Early Shakespeare Canon
- Chapter 10 Boy Parts in Early Shakespeare
- Chapter 11 The Origins of Richard Duke of York
- Chapter 12 Early Shakespeare and the Authorship of The Taming of the Shrew
- Chapter 13 Who Read What When?
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- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - Shakespeare’s Early Verse Style
Titus Andronicus, Venus and Adonis, Arden of Faversham
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2020
- Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594
- Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Beginning with Shakespeare
- Chapter 1 Shakespeare and the Idea of Early Authorship
- Chapter 2 Collaboration and Shakespeare’s Early Career
- Chapter 3 The Language and Style of Early Shakespeare
- Chapter 4 Shakespeare’s Early Verse Style
- Chapter 5 Early Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Narrative Theory:
- Chapter 6 Poetry, Counsel, and Coercion in Shakespeare’s Early History Plays
- Chapter 7 John Lyly and Shakespeare’s Early Career
- Chapter 8 Spenser and Shakespeare: Bards of a Feather?
- Chapter 9 Arden of Faversham, Richard Burbage, and the Early Shakespeare Canon
- Chapter 10 Boy Parts in Early Shakespeare
- Chapter 11 The Origins of Richard Duke of York
- Chapter 12 Early Shakespeare and the Authorship of The Taming of the Shrew
- Chapter 13 Who Read What When?
- Book part
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the relationship between three stretches of text in which a hunt is described: the exchange between Tamora and Aaron in Titus Andronicus (2.3.10–50); several stanzas of Venus and Adonis (830–99); and Thomas Arden’s narrative of his nightmare in Arden of Faversham, in which he is transformed from a by-stander to the prey (6.6–34). The first two of these passages are indubitably by Shakespeare, and reasons are given for concluding that all three, which share complexes of words and images, are by a single author. The order in which the works were composed is discussed. These and samples from other early plays – including a further evocation of hunted deer in 1 Henry VI, 4.2 ߝ are analysed to illustrate distinctive aspects of Shakespeare’s early poetic style, such as the way that word-play generates imagery, giving his verse its vivid particularity.
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- Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594 , pp. 102 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020