Shakespeares Tragic Sequence
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Author | : Kenneth Muir |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136568530 |
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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.
Author | : Ralph Berry |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780874136852 |
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"Tragic Instance follows Shakespeare's progress through his tragedies. The book accepts Kenneth Muir's prescription, "There is no such thing as Shakespearian Tragedy: there are only Shakespearian tragedies." Accordingly, each of the tragedies, from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus, is studied in order of composition. Richard III and Richard II are included because each is described as "tragedy" on the title page. No larger unity is seen. The play is everything that is the case."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Dieter Mehl |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521316903 |
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Twelve plays are examined individually regarding their origins, stage and critical histories and the problems associated with their categorization as tragedy.
Author | : Robert Lanier Reid |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780874137255 |
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Since about 1960, when five-act division in Shakespeare's plays was strongly disputed, most critics have focused on individual scenes rather than holistic form. This book argues for Shakespeare's use of five acts, arranged in three cycles to form a 2-1-2 pattern. It also examines the role of multiple plots and centers of consciousness, especially in the festive comedies and romances. Additionally, it traces Shakespeare's gradual mastery of the art of epiphany, compares it to Spenser's complementary focus on transcendent reality, and traces in Macbeth the dark mode of Shakespeare's dramaturgical pattern.
Author | : Ruth Nevo |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 140087260X |
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A "symbolist" approach has dominated Shakespearean criticism for many years, but Ruth Nevo believes that the emphasis on static and pictorial aspects has obscured the essentially dynamic nature of dramatic expression and this study of the development of Shakespeare's tragic form is offered to correct the imbalance. From detailed analyses of each of Shakespeare's ten tragedies emerges a characteristic structure—a five-phased movement of discovery—that articulates and orders the traditional components of tragedy. This sequence is one of predicament, psychomachia, peripeteia, perspectives of irony and pathos, and catastrophe. It is a continuous, accumulative, and consummatory one, rather than a simple up-down movement or even a more complex thesis-antithesis-synthesis. Inheriting a five-act model and its developed rationale, Shakespeare used it to express an ever richer and more complex tragic experience. As the protagonist's life unfolds before us, the development of his tragic recognition is coextensive with the whole of the action. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Nicholas Grene |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230379192 |
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The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet all three plays share similar thematic concerns and preoccupations: the relation of power to legitimating authority, for instance, or of male and female roles in the imagination of (male) heroic endeavour. In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period display this combination of strikingly different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. Taking the English history play as his starting point, he argues that Shakespeare established two different modes of imagining: the one mythic and visionary, the other sceptical and analytic. In the tragic plays that followed, themes and situations are dramatised, alternately, in sacred and secular worlds. A chapter is devoted to each tragedy, but with a continuing awareness of companion plays: the analysis of Julius Caesar informing that of Hamlet, discussion of Troilus and Cressida counterpointed by the critique of Othello and the treatment of King Lear growing out from the limitations of Timon of Athens. The aim is to resist homogenising the plays but to recognise and explore the unique imaginative enterprise from which they arose.
Author | : Kenneth Muir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas Brooke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136567410 |
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First published in 1968. Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'. The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays develop an understanding of Shakespeare's use of the stage picture in relation to the emblematic imagery of Elizabethan poetry.
Author | : Larry S. Champion |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820338443 |
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This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.
Author | : T. McAlindon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1996-04-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521566056 |
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This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two models of nature in Renaissance culture, one hierarchical, in which everything has an appointed place, and the other contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation. This latter model informs Shakespeare's tragedy.