Richard Hillman teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in the Université François-Rabelais, Tours

French Origins represents a valuable contribution to an expansive and painstakinglife’s work.French Origins offers a persuasively nuanced critique of what Hillman calls the “Myth of the Single Source,” and memorably demonstrates its central premise that writers read and wrote “through and across” multiple texts.

• Introduction1. On the generic cusp: Richard II, La Guisade and the invention of tragic heroes2. Out of their classical depth: From pathos to bathos in early English tragedy; or, the comedy of terrors3. Staging the Judith Jinx: Heads or tales?BibliogrpahyEarly texts and editionsCritical and historical scholarshipTextual notes

Richard Hillman teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in the Université François-Rabelais, Tours

French Origins represents a valuable contribution to an expansive and painstakinglife’s work.French Origins offers a persuasively nuanced critique of what Hillman calls the “Myth of the Single Source,” and memorably demonstrates its central premise that writers read and wrote “through and across” multiple texts.

• Introduction1. On the generic cusp: Richard II, La Guisade and the invention of tragic heroes2. Out of their classical depth: From pathos to bathos in early English tragedy; or, the comedy of terrors3. Staging the Judith Jinx: Heads or tales?BibliogrpahyEarly texts and editionsCritical and historical scholarshipTextual notes

Richard Hillman teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in the Université François-Rabelais, Tours

French Origins represents a valuable contribution to an expansive and painstakinglife’s work.French Origins offers a persuasively nuanced critique of what Hillman calls the “Myth of the Single Source,” and memorably demonstrates its central premise that writers read and wrote “through and across” multiple texts.

• Introduction1. On the generic cusp: Richard II, La Guisade and the invention of tragic heroes2. Out of their classical depth: From pathos to bathos in early English tragedy; or, the comedy of terrors3. Staging the Judith Jinx: Heads or tales?BibliogrpahyEarly texts and editionsCritical and historical scholarshipTextual notes