Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition : A Reading of Five Problem Plays

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This 2005 book contends that Shakespeare's so-called 'problem plays' can be viewed as experiments in the Mannerist style associated with sixteenth-century Italian painting. The plays reappraised here are Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure.