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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... Titus Andronicus and Romeo andfuliet. In one of these Shakespeare aroused horror, in the other pity; but in sOme of the Histories he succeeded in arousing both. He had learnt a great deal from Marlowe, obviously in I 8 Shakespeare's ...
... Titus Andronicus and Romeo andfuliet. In one of these Shakespeare aroused horror, in the other pity; but in sOme of the Histories he succeeded in arousing both. He had learnt a great deal from Marlowe, obviously in I 8 Shakespeare's ...
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... Titus Andronicus, but too much grand guignol. Richard III was well constructed but the hero was a villain and the element of ritual softened the dramatic impact. Romeo and juliet relied too much on accident. Richard II was too weak to ...
... Titus Andronicus, but too much grand guignol. Richard III was well constructed but the hero was a villain and the element of ritual softened the dramatic impact. Romeo and juliet relied too much on accident. Richard II was too weak to ...
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... Titus Andronicus: the play is so horrific that they would gladly transfer the responsibility to some other dramatist. Could Shakespeare, they asked, at any stage of his career have perpetrated this grand guignol melodrama of rape ...
... Titus Andronicus: the play is so horrific that they would gladly transfer the responsibility to some other dramatist. Could Shakespeare, they asked, at any stage of his career have perpetrated this grand guignol melodrama of rape ...
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... Titus Andronicus contains two actual quotations from Seneca in the original Latin; it ends with a banquet, copied from T hyestes, in which Tamora's sons are served to her in a pie; and the chain of revenges—from the sacrifice of ...
... Titus Andronicus contains two actual quotations from Seneca in the original Latin; it ends with a banquet, copied from T hyestes, in which Tamora's sons are served to her in a pie; and the chain of revenges—from the sacrifice of ...
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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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