Shakespeare: The Tragedies

This comprehensive and well-informed study is also a work of detection and reappraisal. Each tragedy is considered both as a text and as a play to experience in performance. Shakespeare''s engagement with this form of drama is followed step-by-step until its concluding years of intense activity. No theory of tragedy emerges, but rather an increasing ability to maintain and communicate a clear-eyed perception of a changing and often violent society in which action is stronger than words or conscious intention.>

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• Authors: John Russell Brown, BROWN JOHN RUSSELL, John Russell-Brown
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2001
• EAN: 9780333589571
• ISBN: 978-0-333-58957-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Hamlet;King Lear;William Shakespeare