Shakespeare's Tragic SequenceRoutledge, 2013 M10 11 - 216 páginas First published in 1972. The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare's tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to them. The plays are almost always concerned with one person; they end with the death of the hero; the suffering and calamity that befall him are exceptional; and the tragedies include the medieval idea of the reversal of fortune. |
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... There is no evidence that Shakespeare regarded the Roman plays as different in kind frOm the other tragedies, or that he was really hampered by the necessity of keeping 'close to the facts of history. Secondly, both Macbez/z and King ...
... There is no evidence that Shakespeare regarded the Roman plays as different in kind frOm the other tragedies, or that he was really hampered by the necessity of keeping 'close to the facts of history. Secondly, both Macbez/z and King ...
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... there were particular ones which operated on the writing of individual poets and, of course, there were great divergences of temperament. There was, finally and crucially, the choice of subject and the influence of the material to be ...
... there were particular ones which operated on the writing of individual poets and, of course, there were great divergences of temperament. There was, finally and crucially, the choice of subject and the influence of the material to be ...
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... there is something odd about a synthesis which actually precedes what it is supposed to synthesise. In this case it can easily be seen that a respected critic has been seduced by a desire to find a significant relationship between all ...
... there is something odd about a synthesis which actually precedes what it is supposed to synthesise. In this case it can easily be seen that a respected critic has been seduced by a desire to find a significant relationship between all ...
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... there is no such thing as Shakespearean tragedy, in any deep and inclusive sense, apart from the motif of pride. Hamlet and Coriolanus, however dissimilar, have a central theme in common: right self-esteem turning into wrong pride. And ...
... there is no such thing as Shakespearean tragedy, in any deep and inclusive sense, apart from the motif of pride. Hamlet and Coriolanus, however dissimilar, have a central theme in common: right self-esteem turning into wrong pride. And ...
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... there is nearly always the presence of evil outside the tragic hero—for example in Iago, Edmund, Claudius, Tybalt, Lady Macbeth—which is an essential part of the tragic pattern; and it does not bring out the enormous differences between ...
... there is nearly always the presence of evil outside the tragic hero—for example in Iago, Edmund, Claudius, Tybalt, Lady Macbeth—which is an essential part of the tragic pattern; and it does not bring out the enormous differences between ...
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3 Julius Caesar
| 42 |
4 Hamlet
| 55 |
5 Othello
| 93 |
6 King Lear
| 117 |
7 Macbeth
| 142 |
8 Antony and Cleopatra
| 156 |
9 Coriolanus
| 172 |
10 Timon of Athens
| 187 |
Notes
| 197 |
Index | 205 |
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