Intertextual ShakespeareMythological Origins & Elizabethan Concerns

Claire Nicholas-Walker

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Shakespeare’s Elizabethan world

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Medieval

Troilus &Cressida vs Troilus & Criseyde.

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Ancient Greek

Romeo & Juliet vs Pyramus & Thisbe

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Ancient Mesoamerican

King Lear vs Cohoba

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Conclusions

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• Shakespeare injected the concerns of his time

• Why have we retold the same stories over and over again?

• The need to know and explain the environments and communities we live in

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