The Two Noble Kinsmen (Vol. 58) - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Cutts, John P. “Shakespeare's Song and Masque Hand in The Two Noble Kinsmen.English Miscellany 18 (1967): 55-85.

Attacks the problem of authorship through an examination of the use of masque, music, and song in all of the plays the King's Men performed during the reign of James I, particularly focusing on The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Potter, Lois. “The Two Noble Kinsmen: Spectacle and Narrative.” In The Show Within: Dramatic and Other Insets. English Renaissance Drama (1550-1642): Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Montpellier 22-25 November 1990, edited by François Laroque, pp. 235-51. Montpellier: Publications de Université Paul-Valéry. 1992.

Studies the relationship between the play's elaborate ceremonies and its use of narrative, noting that the play emphasizes narrative over spectacle.

———. “Topicality or Politics? The Two...

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