Shakespearean Tragedy
Author | : Andrew Cecil Bradley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Andrew Cecil Bradley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Claire McEachern |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-08-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 110701977X |
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
Author | : John Bayley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000350444 |
Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare’s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking. The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of tragedy creates the play’s powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley’s highly original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general reader.
Author | : John Drakakis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 131789989X |
Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a key intervention in its own right and as a representative of an influential critical approach to the genre. The collection as a whole, therefore, provides both a guide and explanation to the various ways in which contemporary criticism has determined our understanding of the tragedies, and the opportunity for assessing the wider issues such criticism raises. The collection begins by considering the impact of social semiotics on approaches to the tragedies, before moving on to deal, in turn, with the various forms of Marxist criticism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Poststructuralism.
Author | : Kent Cartwright |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271039639 |
Author | : H. B. Charlton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521081041 |
H. B. Charlton focuses on Shakespeare's tragedies specifically as plays along with the themes of man and morality.
Author | : Frederick William Sternfeld |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415353274 |
First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.
Author | : Kiernan Ryan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472587014 |
This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right through to his last, Coriolanus. The four full-length studies at the heart of the book focus in depth on Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as a singular, complete work of dramatic art with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges, but with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at its core. Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits.
Author | : Shirley Nelson Garner |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1996-02-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780253210272 |
While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.
Author | : A. Bradley |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2005-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0141910844 |
A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the line of distinguished Shakespeare critics. His acute yet undogmatic and almost conversational critical method has—despite fluctuations in fashion—remained enduringly popular and influential. For, as John Bayley observes, these lectures give us a true and exhilarating sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that stretch forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things.