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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Page 33
... father's right . This is a first act in which everything has already fallen into place . The system has spoken and acted , with complete self - aware- ness and certitude . No appeal to " law " suffices to resolve conflict . When Lucius ...
... father's right . This is a first act in which everything has already fallen into place . The system has spoken and acted , with complete self - aware- ness and certitude . No appeal to " law " suffices to resolve conflict . When Lucius ...
Page 37
... father and a mother ? " ( 3.2.60 ) is a moment of human - rights con- sciousness , an awareness that Titus will have to turn against the system that made him and is destroying him . The meaning is spelled out by Lavinia in the ...
... father and a mother ? " ( 3.2.60 ) is a moment of human - rights con- sciousness , an awareness that Titus will have to turn against the system that made him and is destroying him . The meaning is spelled out by Lavinia in the ...
Page 38
... father should . The audience can do its sums on the Aaron- Titus contrasts without help . But this is not to promote ... father's right . The revenge action is therefore directed against the 38 TRAGIC INSTANCE.
... father should . The audience can do its sums on the Aaron- Titus contrasts without help . But this is not to promote ... father's right . The revenge action is therefore directed against the 38 TRAGIC INSTANCE.
Page 39
... father have absolute right over his children , including the right to slay a daughter who has incurred shame ... father's sorrow die ! ( 5.3.43-47 ) The meaning of this supreme act of patriarchy comes down to the repeated " shame , " the ...
... father have absolute right over his children , including the right to slay a daughter who has incurred shame ... father's sorrow die ! ( 5.3.43-47 ) The meaning of this supreme act of patriarchy comes down to the repeated " shame , " the ...
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... father bleed ? There's meed for a meed , death for a deathly deed ! ( 65-66 ) Like Lavinia , Lucius acknowledges the rights of fatherhood , includ- ing the duty of a son to avenge his father . The Emperor of Rome falls to this extension ...
... father bleed ? There's meed for a meed , death for a deathly deed ! ( 65-66 ) Like Lavinia , Lucius acknowledges the rights of fatherhood , includ- ing the duty of a son to avenge his father . The Emperor of Rome falls to this extension ...
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.
Page 48 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die : I think, there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him : — A horse!
Page 133 - He takes her by the palm; ay, well said, whisper; with as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship.
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.