Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence
First 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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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence
First 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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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

by Kenneth Muir
Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

by Kenneth Muir

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First 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415353250
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/23/2004
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 210
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Apprenticeship; Chapter 3 Julius Caesar; Chapter 4 Hamlet; Chapter 5 Othello; Chapter 6 King Lear; Chapter 7 Macbeth; Chapter 8 Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 9 Coriolanus; Chapter 10 Timon of Athens;
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