The Two Noble Kinsmen: Collaboration, Self-parody, & Retrospective Lens?
What Would Yogi Bera say? If I were at production of an Early Modern play about a ruler named Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, I might think the play was A Midsummer Night’s Dream . If the plot involved three females, along with a war-inclined man’s wife, urging a the man to violence, I might guess that the play was Macbeth . If it involved a young woman who falls in love with a young man that her father believes is beyond her reach, and she later goes mad and is at risk of drowning, I’d think it was Hamlet . If it involved a rag-tag bunch of amateur actors putting on a show for their ruler, I’d think we were back in A Midsummer Night’s Dream . If the plot involved a love and possible betrothal confused or complicated by mistaken identities, I’d think the play might be Twelfth Night or Much Ado About Nothing . If the play involved a ruler named Creon dishonoring the dead by prohibiting the burial of certain corpses, I’d think it was a production of Sophocles’ play, Anti...