Shakespeare's Early TragediesMethuen, 1968 - 214 pages Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'. The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays develop an understanding of Shakespeare's use of the stage picture in relation to the emblematic imagery of Elizabethan poetry. |
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... utterance which are equally distinctions of significance and value . The supreme achievement of Elizabethan poetry was The Faerie Queene , of which the first three books were printed in 1590 ; and it is difficult not to suppose that ...
... utterance which are equally distinctions of significance and value . The supreme achievement of Elizabethan poetry was The Faerie Queene , of which the first three books were printed in 1590 ; and it is difficult not to suppose that ...
Page 147
... utterance . He and Brutus speak verse indeed , but a verse which is as flexible as prose , and thus far removed from either the complacent commonplace of Caesar or the inflated rhetoric of the tribunes . And when the rhetoric is echoed ...
... utterance . He and Brutus speak verse indeed , but a verse which is as flexible as prose , and thus far removed from either the complacent commonplace of Caesar or the inflated rhetoric of the tribunes . And when the rhetoric is echoed ...
Page 180
... utterance becomes hysterical , and excess of statement goes with it . But even here the distinction is not easy to draw : there is a pro- found imbalance between the king's asexual love , and the queen's appetitive hanging and feeding ...
... utterance becomes hysterical , and excess of statement goes with it . But even here the distinction is not easy to draw : there is a pro- found imbalance between the king's asexual love , and the queen's appetitive hanging and feeding ...
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Aaron action ambivalence Antony audience beast becomes blank verse blood Bolingbroke Brutus Cassius character choric Clarence Clarence's Claudius climax comedy comic conscience contrast course criticism curse death divine doth Dover Wilson dramatic dream earlier plays echoes Elizabethan emblem emblematic emerges established experience fact Faerie Queene father figure final formal ghost Hamlet hath heaven and hell Henry heroic Horatio human irony judgement Julius Caesar kind king Laertes later plays Lavinia Lucius Lucrece Marcus Margaret Mercutio mode murder nature night nobility noble obvious Ophelia pattern play's poetic poetry political Polonius prose Queen Queen Mab question Rape of Lucrece revenge rhetorical Richard Richard II ritual Roman Rome Romeo and Juliet Saturninus scene seems sense sequence Shakespeare significance simple soliloquy Spanish Tragedy speech splendour stage storm stress structure suggested Tamora thee theme thing thou tion Titus Andronicus tone tragedy tragic utterance words