Audley-Charles, MG;
(2014)
Shakespeare's experiences as a young man in continental Europe, and how that influenced the writing of all his plays set in various European countries outside England.
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Abstract
We present here the case and explanation for the reason why, perhaps counter to expectations, the majority of his plays were set in places outside England and Scotland. The majority of his plays were in fact set in continental European countries, namely: Italy, Sicily, Bohemia, Greece, Denmark, Illyria, and the Adriatic coast as well as in France, Vienna, and in what was then called Troy (which is now called Hisarlik) in NW Turkey. We suggest that he was writing in fact from memory years after he had returned from those countries and had returned to England. We therefore concur with recent authors (e.g. RP Roe’s The Shakespeare Guide to Italy, 2011) that Shakespeare spent a period of his life on the Continent.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Shakespeare's experiences as a young man in continental Europe, and how that influenced the writing of all his plays set in various European countries outside England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | michael.audley-charles@orange.fr |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare, Italy, Travel |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1420633 |
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