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COPYRIGHT 2002 Modern Humanities Research Association
Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida' and the Inns of Court Revels. By W. R. ELTON. Aldershot, Brookfield, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 2000. xi + 201 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].
The main aim of this book is to provide internal textual evidence for the proposition that Shakespeare wrote Troilus and Cressida specifically for the Inns of Court revels. In a succession of chapters devoted to different aspects of the play's language, W. R. Elton sets out to ground the argument for the play's occasional provenance. His method throughout is to suggest that the various aspects he isolates would suit the occasion of a revel. The basic idea is not a new one in discussions of the play, having been first suggested by Peter Alexander over seventy years ago, and circulated in different ways by a number of scholars since, but Elton wants to extend the intuitions of other scholars by providing a more solid textual foundation. This is a worthy but at the same time problematic aim, since textual evidence, dependent as it is on interpretation, is by its very nature subject to differing,...
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