Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes Slaves of Passion
Author : Lily Bess Campbell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Emotions
ISBN :
Shakespeare's Magnanimity
Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Vintage Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781784870508
Book Description
The field of Shakespearean studies is cluttered with the fossils of past discussion, and somehow we have to pick our way around them. In the opening scene to this unusual book, these obstructive entities are brought to life and engage in lively argument. Four essays on Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus follow, all of which freshen the air- unfamiliar, unspecialised, free-ranging and openly argumentative, but tied at all points to the original text. Shakespeare wrote out of, and about, a common humanity, and it is with humanity, common and uncommon, that we must read or watch him. This book is accordingly addressed to the academic or the new student.
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy
Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415086578
Book Description
A unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Lear and Coriolanus as `sacrificial victims of the prevailing social order'.
Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes
Author : Lily Bess Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence
Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136568603
Book Description
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.
The Tragic Hero Through Ages
Author : Karuna Shanker Misra
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9788172110369
Book Description
The Tragic Hero through Ages is an illuminating work on the greatest Greek and English tragedies and their heroes. The first chapter deals with the Greek tragedies and their heroes. The next three chapters study the outstanding pre-Shakespearean, Shakespearean and post-Shakespearean tragedies and their heroes. The Miltonic and the Byronic heroes have been studied in fifth and sixth chapters, respectively. The closing chapter summarizes the whole work and many undiscovered facts have been brought to light. It is genuine contribution to the whole theory of Greek and English tragic drama. It embodies the most famous speeches and best scenes from the greatest Greek and English Tragedies: their short summaries and the lifelike portraits of their heroes. It is a running commentary on the Greek and English tragic drama, spreading over a span of 2500 years with all its charm and grandeur. It is a colossal work with the finish of an exquisite piece of jewellery.
Shakespearean Tragedy
Author : Andrew Cecil Bradley
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 1922
Category :
ISBN :
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Shakespeare's Big Men
Author : Richard van Oort
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442622172
Book Description
Shakespeare’s Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies – Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus – through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology’s theory of the origins of human society explains the social function of tragedy: to defer our resentment against the “big men” who dominate society by letting us first identify with the tragic protagonist and his resentment, then allowing us to repudiate the protagonist’s resentful rage and achieve theatrical catharsis. Drawing on this hypothesis, Richard van Oort offers inspired readings of Shakespeare’s plays and their representations of desire, resentment, guilt, and evil. His analysis revives the universal spirit in Shakespearean criticism, illustrating how the plays can serve as a way to understand the ethical dilemma of resentment and discover within ourselves the nature of the human experience.
The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy
Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874132717
Book Description
Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 110701977X
Book Description
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
