In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare\'s deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones.
The resulting internal tens.
The author draws on specific and unsuspected points of contact, whilst also pointing out a broad tendency by the dramatist, to draw on French material, both dramatic and non-dramatic, to inflect Comic forms in potentially tragic directions.
In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare\'s deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones
