Tragic Instance: The Sequence of Shakespeare's TragediesUniversity of Delaware Press, 1999 - 228 pages "Tragic Instance follows Shakespeare's progress through his tragedies. The book accepts Kenneth Muir's prescription, "There is no such thing as Shakespearian Tragedy: there are only Shakespearian tragedies." Accordingly, each of the tragedies, from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus, is studied in order of composition. Richard III and Richard II are included because each is described as "tragedy" on the title page. No larger unity is seen. The play is everything that is the case."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... Lear's System 137 10. Macbeth : The Sexual Underplot 150 11. Timon of Athens 164 12. Antony and Cleopatra : Role - Player , Actress , Actor- Manager 172 13. Sexual Imagery in Coriolanus 186 14. Class Politics in Coriolanus 200 Notes ...
... Lear's System 137 10. Macbeth : The Sexual Underplot 150 11. Timon of Athens 164 12. Antony and Cleopatra : Role - Player , Actress , Actor- Manager 172 13. Sexual Imagery in Coriolanus 186 14. Class Politics in Coriolanus 200 Notes ...
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... Lear's System " first appeared in Shake- speare Quarterly , and " Sexual Imagery in Coriolanus " in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 . " Class as Motivation in Othello " and " Class Politics in Coriolanus " are taken from my ...
... Lear's System " first appeared in Shake- speare Quarterly , and " Sexual Imagery in Coriolanus " in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 . " Class as Motivation in Othello " and " Class Politics in Coriolanus " are taken from my ...
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... Lear has shown good statecraft during his long reign prior to abdication . Hamlet is some kind of genius , but of what ? Titus and Antony are old soldiers , long past their best , and Timon is a sport of Nature . These are heroes whose ...
... Lear has shown good statecraft during his long reign prior to abdication . Hamlet is some kind of genius , but of what ? Titus and Antony are old soldiers , long past their best , and Timon is a sport of Nature . These are heroes whose ...
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... Lear that F. L. Lucas , in his Tragedy , asks us always to bear in mind . They are Gloucester's As flies to wanton boys are we to th'gods , They kill us for their sport . and Edgar's ( 4.1.36-7 ) The gods are just , and of our pleasant ...
... Lear that F. L. Lucas , in his Tragedy , asks us always to bear in mind . They are Gloucester's As flies to wanton boys are we to th'gods , They kill us for their sport . and Edgar's ( 4.1.36-7 ) The gods are just , and of our pleasant ...
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... Lear . There is no ideological core to King Lear ( unless it be the denial of ideology ) : the play is a vast panorama of human beings supplying different accounts of the world they perceive . The key word is " Fate . " Fate has to ...
... Lear . There is no ideological core to King Lear ( unless it be the denial of ideology ) : the play is a vast panorama of human beings supplying different accounts of the world they perceive . The key word is " Fate . " Fate has to ...
Contents
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Romeo and Juliet The Sonnet World of Verona | 61 |
The Tragedy of Richard II | 73 |
Communal Identity and the Rituals of Julius Caesar | 80 |
To say one An Essay on Hamlet | 92 |
Hamlet Nationhood and Identity | 106 |
Class as Motivation in Othello | 129 |
Macbeth The Sexual Underplot | 150 |
Timon of Athens | 164 |
Antony and Cleopatra RolePlayer Actress ActorManager | 172 |
Sexual Imagery in Coriolanus | 186 |
Class Politics in Coriolanus | 200 |
Notes | 212 |
Index | 226 |
Lears System | 137 |
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Page 152 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour 40 As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting ' I dare not ' wait upon ' I would,' Like the poor cat i
Page 150 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 95 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth,— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
Page 84 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 54 - The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What do I fear? myself? There's none else by, Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 195 - O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But, for your son — believe it, O, believe it — Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, If not most mortal to him.
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Page 102 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.