Bradley’s century-old Shakespearean Tragedy.
This volume assembles for the first time writings from the past two hundred years by philosophers engaging the dramatic work of William Shakespeare.
In Shakespearean tragedy the voice of the sea, which Keats heard, comes from another world which our consciousness visits, aware that it cannot live there, or even remain there for more than a moment. Shakespearean fish swam the sea, ...
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
This Work Has Been Intended To Study The Dramatic Significance Of The Tragic Hero In Shakespeare S Major Tragedies.
D. Douglas Waters. Preface Because of developments in the area of critical theory and the universal tendency literary critics have of trying out their theories on Shakespeare's works , my analyses of the tragedies in Christian settings ...
Examining the major tragedies, Millicent Bell reveals the persistent strain of philosophical skepticism. Like his contemporary, Montaigne, Shakespeare repeatedly calls attention to the essential unknowability of our world.
Later Hamlet becomes so preoccupied with the Gonzago play , now practically its director , that he does not realize ... also too much of an exostatic to accept unquestioningly the principle of bloody kin - revenge as the thing to do .
Questions which concern the human mind, and the nature of its reason or of its perception of reality are of an order of complexity in the twentieth century which would have surprised a man of Shakespeare's sensibility in the seventeenth ...
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 ...