Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights,

David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens,and King Lear.

Introduction
Hamlet and the eyases
Portraits of the Iron Age: Troilus and Cressida
'The Word will bring on summer:' All's Well that Ends Well and Chapman's mythic comedy
Othello, a man killed with kindness
Royal Measures: Measure for Measure and Middleton's comedy of disillusionment
Anger's priviledge
Timon of Athens
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Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

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