The biblical story of Adam and Eve relates how eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge (traditionally associated ... (3.1.125) is a disgust with himself at his own sinful humanity, as someone “with more offences at my beck [command] ...
A collection containing Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Life of Timon of Athens, The tragedy of Titus Andronicus, and The History of Troilus and Cressida.
Shakespeare's tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard's tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time.
This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies.
These tragic heroes are assembled together in this deluxe slipcase edition and it contains the complete text of the plays and respective character lists.
Select bibliography Only books are listed . For articles , more specialized ... London : Methuen , 1966 ; American edition under the title The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare . ... Shakespeare : Select Bibliographical Guides .
G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare's tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the playwright's conspicuous gift among his contemporaries was a sympathy for joy and sorrow, pity and terror, and right and wrong ...
In this collection of essays, eminent Shakespearean scholars examine ten of these tragedies through a variety of postmodern frameworks: historical, linguistic and psychoanalytical.
Titus Andronicus - Romeo and Juliet - Julius Caesar - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Othello, the Moor of Venice - King Lear - Macbeth - Antony and Cleopatra -...
Through close, theatrically informed readings of Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth the book traces the way acts of violence provoke questions about the identities of the victims ...
This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies.
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G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare's tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the playwright's conspicuous gift among his contemporaries was a sympathy for joy and sorrow, pity and terror, and right and wrong ...