Shakespeare's Resources - John Drakakis

Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative And Dramatic Sources Of Shakespeare (1957-75) Established A Vocabulary And A Method For Linking Shakespeare's Plays With A Series Of Texts On Which They Were Thought To Be Based. Shakespeare's Resources Revisits And Interrogates The Methodology That Has Prevailed Since Then And Proposes A Number Of Radical Departures From Bullough's Model. The Tacitly Accepted Linear Model Of 'source' And 'influence' That Critics And Scholars Have Wrestled With Is Here Reconceptualised As A Dynamic Process In Which Texts Interact And Generate Meanings That Domesticated Versions Of Intertextuality Do Not Adequately Account For.