Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos
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.