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Genre/Form: | Tragedies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Berry, Ralph, 1931- Tragic instance. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1999 (OCoLC)607268540 Online version: Berry, Ralph, 1931- Tragic instance. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1999 (OCoLC)609113994 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph Berry |
ISBN: | 0874136857 9780874136852 |
OCLC Number: | 40996030 |
Description: | 228 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. Titus Andronicus: Systemic Logic -- 2. Richard III: Player and King -- 3. Romeo and Juliet: The Sonnet World of Verona -- 4. The Tragedy of Richard II -- 5. Communal Identity and the Rituals of Julius Caesar -- 6. "To say 'one'": An Essay on Hamlet -- 7. Hamlet: Nationhood and Identity -- 8. Class as Motivation in Othello -- 9. Lear's System -- 10. Macbeth: The Sexual Underplot -- 11. Timon of Athens -- 12. Antony and Cleopatra: Role-Player, Actress, Actor-Manager -- 13. Sexual Imagery in Coriolanus -- 14. Class Politics in Coriolanus. |
Responsibility: | Ralph Berry. |
Abstract:
"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."--Jacket.
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