Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Author: A. C. Bradley

Publisher: anboco

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 3736414218

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Shakespearean tragedy is the classification of drama written by William Shakespeare which has a noble protagonist, who is flawed in some way, placed in a stressful heightened situation and ends with a fatal conclusion. The plots of Shakespearean tragedy focus on the reversal of fortune of the central characters which leads to their ruin and ultimately, death. Shakespeare wrote several different classifications of plays throughout his career and the labeling of his plays into categories is disputed amongst different sources and scholars. There are 10 Shakespeare plays which are always classified as tragedies and several others which are disputed; there are also Shakespeare plays which fall into the classifications of comedy, history, or romance/tragicomedy that share fundamental attributes of a Shakespeare tragedy but do not wholly fit in to the category. The plays which provide the strongest fundamental examples of the genre of Shakespearean tragedy are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbethand Antony and Cleopatra.

The Complete Tragedies
The Complete Tragedies

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 1668

ISBN-13:

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Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career. One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a few years later with Romeo and Juliet. However, his most admired tragedies were written in a seven-year period between 1601 and 1608. These include his four major tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, along with Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar and the lesser-known Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida. This collection includes: Romeo And Juliet Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Timon Of Athens Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark Troilus And Cressida King Lear Othello, The Moor Of Venice Antony And Cleopatra Cymbeline William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.