Pynchon, Shakespeare, Kyd

Basileios Drolias b.drolias at ic.ac.uk
Mon Jan 16 09:55:52 CST 1995


Over the weekend I was reading the `Spanish tragedy' hoping to find some 
links with `The couriers tragedy' from CoL49. Regretably apart from a few 
similarities in the meter of the two poems I can't say that anything in 
Kyd reminded me of Pynchon. Has anything been written on Pynchon's 
influences in writing Warfinger's tragedy? For the past two or so years 
that I have been a Pynchon reader I also found it rather odd that there 
are not any obvious (to me at least) influences from Shakespear (I know 
it is difficult to argue why there should be any Shakesperean influences 
in the first place but this absence makes me thing that either Pynchon 
does not care about the distant past at all or that he never bothered 
with Shakespear. Both these views coming from someone who liked T.S. 
Eliot (or who was at least reading him)  strike me as being rather odd.)
Any thoughts?
       

basil





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