This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to read early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised understanding of intertextuality is more beneficial than an interpretation which merely identifies ‘source’ texts, and analyses several key early modern texts through this lens. The book analyses the early modern utilisation of classical mythology, allegory, folktale, parody, and satire, in works by William Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Beaumont,  and Ben Jonson, and foregrounds the production of meaning generated by the interplay of texts. The book would be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of early modern literature, as well as early modern scholars. weiterlesen