Shakespearean Tragedy

Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Andrew Cecil Bradley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1922
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ISBN:

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Claire McEachern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-08-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 110701977X

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This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Shakespearean Tragedy

Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: John Drakakis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 131789989X

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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.

Shakespeare and Tragedy

Shakespeare and Tragedy
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000350444

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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.

Shakespearian Tragedy

Shakespearian Tragedy
Author: H. B. Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1948
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521081041

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H. B. Charlton focuses on Shakespeare's tragedies specifically as plays along with the themes of man and morality.

Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double

Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double
Author: Kent Cartwright
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271039639

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William Shakespeare Tragedies

William Shakespeare Tragedies
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1645171868

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Twelve of Shakespeare’s most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume. William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion.

The Tragedies of Shakespeare

The Tragedies of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1902
Genre:
ISBN:

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Music in Shakespearean Tragedy

Music in Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Frederick William Sternfeld
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415353274

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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.

Shakespearean Tragedy

Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: A.C. Bradley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2018-03-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113709253X

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A.C.Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism of all time. In his ten lectures, Bradley has provided a study of the four great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - which reveals a deep understanding of Shakespearean thought and art. This centenary edition features a new Introduction by Robert Shaughnessy which places Bradley's work in the critical, intellectual and cultural context of its time. Shaughnessy summarises the content and argumentative thrust of the book, outlines the critical debates and counter-arguments that have followed in the wake of its publication and, most importantly, prompts readers to engage with Bradley's work itself.