Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory

Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory

Author: James Cunningham

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780838637111

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Individual chapters deal with cultural materialism, new historicism, poststructuralism, and feminist criticism. The theoretical basis of each critical mode is examined and some representative critiques analyzed. Most importantly, in each chapter the various interpretations are tested against Shakespeare's texts, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different readings are assessed.


The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author: Janette Dillon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-03-08

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1139462431

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Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.


The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: Claire McEachern

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1107470137

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This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare's tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.


The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: James C. Bulman

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780874132717

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Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories.


Christian Settings in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Christian Settings in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author: D. Douglas Waters

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780838635285

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Battenhouse's Shakespearean tragedy: Its art and Christian premises, Irving Ribner's Patterns in Shakespearian tragedy, Virgil K. Whitaker's The mirror up to nature: The techniques of Shakespeare's tragedies, and Robert Grams Hunter's Shakespeare and the mystery of God's judgments. Waters questions, for example, Battenhouse's validity of Christian theological and didactic emphases on the old purgation theory of catharsis. His approach differs also from Northrop Frye's views on the tragedies in Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, an archetypal approach to representative plays including the tragedies.


Shakespearean Tragedy

Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: D. F. Bratchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-24

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1134967098

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This volume reflects changing critical perceptions of Shakespeare's works from Renaissance to modern times and celebrates the power of Shakespearean tragedy. The selection of critical reaction covers both the general concept of Shakespearean tragedy and its expression in the major plays, illustrating the main directions of critical approaches to Shakespearean tragedy and enabling the reader to develop an informed response to Shakespeare's dramatic works. An introductory chapter traces the development of the concept of tragedy from classical times, and its dramatic expression in the time of Shakespeare. Each of Shakespeare's great tragedies - Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, and Othello - is considered in turn, and a final chapter summarizes contemporary critical approaches so that the reader can link the best of the critical past with the present critical scene.


Shakespeare's Tragedies

Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author: Dieter Mehl

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780521316903

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Twelve plays are examined individually regarding their origins, stage and critical histories and the problems associated with their categorization as tragedy.


Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective

Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective

Author: Larry S. Champion

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0820338443

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This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.