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Tragedy is potential in the psychology the play develops, and the moon looks down with a watery eye. That tragedy is averted is a piece of good luck, but that isn't why we are happy. The play makes us happy because it finds serious ...
Tragedy is potential in the psychology the play develops, and the moon looks down with a watery eye. That tragedy is averted is a piece of good luck, but that isn't why we are happy. The play makes us happy because it finds serious ...
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In Shakespeare's tragedies the struggle is to the death and fought between “mighty opposites.” Hamlet, who describes it, struggles against the king and his minions and/or one side of himself. Which will emerge victorious is a function ...
In Shakespeare's tragedies the struggle is to the death and fought between “mighty opposites.” Hamlet, who describes it, struggles against the king and his minions and/or one side of himself. Which will emerge victorious is a function ...
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In tragedy or tragicomedy, the hybrid form Shakespeare finds most congenial, they are seen to be responsible agents. Failing the perception of responsibility, the audience wearies of the play of stick figures, or it complains of ...
In tragedy or tragicomedy, the hybrid form Shakespeare finds most congenial, they are seen to be responsible agents. Failing the perception of responsibility, the audience wearies of the play of stick figures, or it complains of ...
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In all the kinds of plays he wrote, in tragedy, no doubt, but in the histories and comedies too, his agon is primarily moral. I don't say moralizing, never that. Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's ...
In all the kinds of plays he wrote, in tragedy, no doubt, but in the histories and comedies too, his agon is primarily moral. I don't say moralizing, never that. Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's ...
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That is our obligation but Antony shirks it and tragedy follows. His time has come, cleopatra's too, when she asks who is to blame. Eno- barbus answers: “Antony only, that would make his will Lord of his reason” (3.3).
That is our obligation but Antony shirks it and tragedy follows. His time has come, cleopatra's too, when she asks who is to blame. Eno- barbus answers: “Antony only, that would make his will Lord of his reason” (3.3).
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 25 | |
Shadows of Himself | 79 |
WildGoose Chase | 107 |
A Motley to the View | 136 |
For Ted and Lloyd St Antoine | 155 |
The Dyers Hand | 163 |
Index | 195 |
Sailing to Illyria 65 | 65 |
Fools of Nature 101 | 101 |
PR2894 F65 2007 | 106 |
Treason in the Blood 134 | 134 |
The Wine of Life 160 | 160 |
Bravest at the Last 188 | 188 |
Unpathed Waters Undreamed Shores | 217 |
Journeys End | 247 |
Includes bibliographical references and index | 1 |
The Revolution of the Times 34 | 34 |
Index | 281 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare |
| Author | Russell A. Fraser |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 1412834031, 9781412834032 |
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