1st Edition

Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

By Kenneth Muir Copyright 2005
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1972. The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare's tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to them. The plays are almost always concerned with one person; they end with the death of the hero; the suffering and calamity that... Read more
1. Introduction2. Apprenticeship3. Julius Caesar4. Hamlet5. Othello6. King Lear7. Macbeth8. Antony and Cleopatra9. CoriolanusTimon of Athens

Biography

Kenneth Muir