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Zusatztext Ryan’s chapters on Titus Andronicus , Hamlet , and King Lear , incomparable in their coverage, depth and reasonableness, should become obligatory reading for anyone interested in those plays … Shakespearean Tragedy is of incalculable value. Informationen zum Autor Kiernan Ryan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK. Klappentext This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus , right through to his last, Coriolanus . The four full-length studies at the heart of the book focus in depth on Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies: Hamlet , Othello , King Lear and Macbeth . Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as a singular, complete work of dramatic art with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges, but with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at its core. Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits. Vorwort Through compelling new readings by a leading scholar, this ground-breaking study reveals the revolutionary vision at the heart of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello , King Lear and Macbeth. Zusammenfassung This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare’s tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus , right through to his last, Coriolanus . The four full-length studies at the heart of the book focus in depth on Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies: Hamlet , Othello , King Lear and Macbeth . Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as a singular, complete work of dramatic art with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges, but with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at its core. Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART I 1 The Birth of Shakespearean Tragedy: 2 & 3 Henry VI The Quondam King The Wild Morisco The Upstart Crow The Devil's Butcher PART II 2 Titus Andronicus : A Sympathy of Woe Prototypes and Precursors A Wilderness of Tigers This Fearful Slumber 3 Romeo and Juliet : Kissing by the Book Strange Love Grown Bold The Prison-House of Language Empowering the Audience 4 Julius Caesar : The Common Good An Icy Anatomy Scorning the Base Degrees The Foremost Man of All the World PART III 5 Hamlet : A Kind of Fighting The Stamp of One Defect Seeing Doubles That Within Which Passes Show Things Rank and Gross in Nature The Whips and Scorns of Time The Strong Confluence of Contending Forces A King of Infinite Space The Prophetic Soul of the Wide World 6 Othello : Thereby Hangs a Tail Expectation in Preference to Surprise Sinking Below Shakespeare True Colours The Green-Eyed Monster Who Hath Done This Deed...
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Kiernan Ryan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.
