Shakespeare's Tragic SequenceFirst 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. |
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... University Press, Henry E. Huntingdon Library, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Macmillan and Co., Methuen and Co., Secker and Warburg Ltd. KENNETH MUIR Liverpool This page intentionally left blank INTRODUCTION A. C. Bradley, when Preface.
... University Press, Henry E. Huntingdon Library, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Macmillan and Co., Methuen and Co., Secker and Warburg Ltd. KENNETH MUIR Liverpool This page intentionally left blank INTRODUCTION A. C. Bradley, when Preface.
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Kenneth Muir. This page intentionally left blank INTRODUCTION A. C. Bradley, when he wrote his book on.
Kenneth Muir. This page intentionally left blank INTRODUCTION A. C. Bradley, when he wrote his book on.
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... Bradley's assumptions. In the first place it is very doubtful whether we should segregate the English and Roman histories, and deny them the title of 'pure tragedy', whatever that may be. In the first quartos Richard [I] and Richard [I ...
... Bradley's assumptions. In the first place it is very doubtful whether we should segregate the English and Roman histories, and deny them the title of 'pure tragedy', whatever that may be. In the first quartos Richard [I] and Richard [I ...
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... Bradley's great four as belonging to a single category. There is no such thing as Shakespearian Tragedy: there are only Shakespearian tragedies. Nearly all critics now refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to Shakespeare's ...
... Bradley's great four as belonging to a single category. There is no such thing as Shakespearian Tragedy: there are only Shakespearian tragedies. Nearly all critics now refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to Shakespeare's ...
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... Bradley continues:3 In the circumstances where we see the hero placed, his tragic trait, which is also his greatness, is fatal to him. To meet these circumstances something is required which a smaller man might have given, but which the ...
... Bradley continues:3 In the circumstances where we see the hero placed, his tragic trait, which is also his greatness, is fatal to him. To meet these circumstances something is required which a smaller man might have given, but which the ...
Contents
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3 Julius Caesar
| 42 |
4 Hamlet
| 55 |
5 Othello
| 93 |
6 King Lear
| 117 |
7 Macbeth
| 142 |
8 Antony and Cleopatra
| 156 |
9 Coriolanus
| 172 |
10 Timon of Athens
| 187 |
Notes
| 197 |
Index | 205 |
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