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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