Tragic Form In Shakespeare
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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 | : 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 | : 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.
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.
Author | : Tanya Pollard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0198793111 |
Download Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.
Author | : Curtis Perry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108496172 |
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Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.
Author | : C. J. Sisson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2017-03-31 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1315306379 |
Download Shakespeare's Tragic Justice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare’s great tragedies are explored. This study is based on the lifetime’s research of Elizabethan habits of mind by one of the most distinguished Shakespearean scholars, and will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author | : Janette Dillon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2007-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139462431 |
Download The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.
Author | : Kenneth Muir |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136568530 |
Download Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Naomi Conn Liebler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113478872X |
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and King Lear as `sacrifical victims of the prevailing social order'. A fascinating examination of Shakespearean tragedy, this extraordinary book will provoke excitment and controversy alike.