Shakespeare's Dramaturgy and Binary Form

For Shakespeare and his contemporaries, playwriting was a business of turning stories into theatrical performances. Occasionally, a writer might seize on a notorious murder of the day as the kernel of a plot, but usually the dramatists relied on collections of romances, assemblages of chronicles, and a smattering of old plays for their raw material. That their widespread practice is not inherent in the art of the drama can be seen in the habits of our own writers. O'Neill and Miller to name only two of the most prominent American dramatists may uncharacteristically work over The Oresteia or explore the archives of Old Salem, but normally the major works that we associate with their names owe nothing to prior literary or dramatic sources. Instead, their works grow from a personal, often idiosyncratic root, a genesis far removed from the Elizabethan tradition of adaptation

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