Tragedies, Volume 2: Introduction by Tony TannerWe read Shakespeare line by line for his supernatural mastery of all the poetic resources of the English language, and play by play for his utterly human, utterly intimate feeling for our condition as individuals and as social beings. Through these works, which deal with the transcendence and the corruption of love, the exigencies of power, the domination of fate, and the algebra of human need, an entire civilization has come to understand its character and its destiny. |
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxiii |
Chronology | cxx |
TITUS ANDRONICUS I | cxxvi |
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA | 99 |
JULIUS CAESAR | 247 |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA | 353 |
TIMON OF ATHENS | 505 |
CORIOLANUS | 619 |
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AARON Achilles Ajax answer Antony APEMANTUS arms Aufidius bear better blood bring brother BRUTUS Caesar CASSIUS cause CHARMIAN CITIZEN CLEOPATRA comes COMINIUS common Coriolanus CRESSIDA death deeds doth ENOBARBUS Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fall fear fight follow fool fortune friends give gods Greek hand hast hath hear heart heaven Hector hold honor I'll keep kind leave live look lord Lucius Marcius Mark matter means meet MENENIUS MESSENGER mother nature never night noble once PANDARUS peace play poor pray present queen reason Roman Rome Scene SECOND SENATOR SERVANT Shakespeare SICINIUS soldier speak spirit stand stay strange sweet sword Tamora tears tell thee THERSITES thing THIRD thou thought TIMON Titus Troilus true turn ULYSSES voice worthy