Shakespeare's Early TragediesRoutledge, 2013 M10 11 - 232 pages First published in 1968. 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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... pre-occupied with this book, and especially my wife and our younger son, Thomas, who have lately laboured prodigiously to compile the index. July, 1968 Introduction It has for some time seemed an established fact Foreword.
... pre-occupied with this book, and especially my wife and our younger son, Thomas, who have lately laboured prodigiously to compile the index. July, 1968 Introduction It has for some time seemed an established fact Foreword.
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... established strong grounds for believing that tragedy is not just a dramatic genre, but, in its true form, a distinctive and peculiarly fine experience. It is, I think, rather curious how easily this discrimination has been assimilated ...
... established strong grounds for believing that tragedy is not just a dramatic genre, but, in its true form, a distinctive and peculiarly fine experience. It is, I think, rather curious how easily this discrimination has been assimilated ...
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... established: no doubt there are marks of maturity in A: You Like It that are lacking in Love': Labour's Lost; it would not be difficult to point them out; but they are not such as to ensure general agreement that the later play is in an ...
... established: no doubt there are marks of maturity in A: You Like It that are lacking in Love': Labour's Lost; it would not be difficult to point them out; but they are not such as to ensure general agreement that the later play is in an ...
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... established on the English stage: with the popular tradition leading back through Cambises to the moralities, or the more recent sophistication of Lyly, Greene, Peele, Kyd, and, especially of course, Marlowe; nor simply adding to that ...
... established on the English stage: with the popular tradition leading back through Cambises to the moralities, or the more recent sophistication of Lyly, Greene, Peele, Kyd, and, especially of course, Marlowe; nor simply adding to that ...
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... established relations between an image and its significance which include a precise definition of value, commonly of moral value (the difference, for instance, between describing a woman's lips as 'cherries' or as 'rubies' is an ...
... established relations between an image and its significance which include a precise definition of value, commonly of moral value (the difference, for instance, between describing a woman's lips as 'cherries' or as 'rubies' is an ...
Contents
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Richard III 1593? | 48 |
Romeo and Juliet 1595 | 80 |
Richard II 1595 | 107 |
Julius Caesar 1599 | 138 |
Hamlet 16001 | 163 |
Selective Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 211 |
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Aaron action Antony audience beast becomes blank verse blood Bolingbroke Brutus Caesar Cassius character choric Clarence’s Claudius climax comedy comic confidence conflict conscience contrast course critical curse death divine doth Dover Wilson dramatic dream earlier plays echoes Edward’s emblem emblematic emerges established fact Faerie Queene figure final finally find fire first fit flesh formal fulfil ghost Hamlet hath heaven and hell heroic Horatio human irony julius Caesar kind king Laertes later Lavinia Lucius magnificent Marcus Margaret Mercutio murder night nobility noble obvious Ophelia pattern play’s poetic poetry political Polonius prose Queen Queen Mab question reflection revenge rhetorical Richard Richard II ritual Roman Rome Romeo and Juliet Saturninus scene seems sense sequence Shakespeare significance simple soliloquy specific speech stage stress structure suggested T. S. Eliot Tamora thee theme thou tion Titer Titus Titus Andronicus tone tragedy tragic utterance verse words