Tragic Conditions In Shakespeare

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801893711

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Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare by Paul A. Kottman Pdf

Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays -- As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questions that have been missing from scholarship of the past generation: Are we still moved by Shakespeare, and why? Kottman throws into question the inheritability of human relationships by showing how the bonds upon which we depend for meaning and worth can be dissolved. According to Kottman, the lives of Shakespeare's protagonists are conditioned by social bonds -- kinship ties, civic relations, economic dependencies, political allegiances -- that unravel irreparably. This breakdown means they can neither inherit nor bequeath a livable or desirable form of sociality. Orlando and Rosalind inherit nothing "but growth itself" before becoming refugees in the Forest of Arden; Hamlet is disinherited not only by Claudius's election but by the sheer vacuity of the activities that remain open to him; Lear's disinheritance of Cordelia bequeaths a series of events that finally leave the social sphere itself forsaken of heirs and forbearers alike. Firmly rooted in the philosophical tradition of reading Shakespeare, this bold work is the first sustained interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy since Stanley Cavell's work on skepticism and A. C. Bradley's century-old Shakespearean Tragedy.

Author : Millicent Bell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300127201

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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism by Millicent Bell Pdf

Readers of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why is Othello so vulnerable to Iago’s malice? But while many critics have chosen to overlook these omissions or explain them away, Millicent Bell demonstrates that they are essential elements of Shakespeare’s philosophy of doubt. Examining the major tragedies, Millicent Bell reveals the persistent strain of philosophical skepticism. Like his contemporary, Montaigne, Shakespeare repeatedly calls attention to the essential unknowability of our world. In a period of social, political, and religious upheaval, uncertainty hovered over matters great and small—the succession of the crown, the death of loved ones from plague, the failure of a harvest. Tumultuous social conditions raised ultimate questions for Shakespeare, Bell argues, and ultimately provoked in him a skepticism which casts shadows of existential doubt over his greatest masterpieces.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000350449

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Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley Pdf

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare’s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking. The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of tragedy creates the play’s powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley’s highly original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general reader.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781645171867

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William Shakespeare Tragedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

Twelve of Shakespeare’s most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume. William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion.

Author : A. C. Bradley
Publisher : anboco
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9783736414211

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Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley Pdf

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.

Author : Urmilla Khanna
Publisher : New Delhi : Orient Longman
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:39000003230054

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The Tragic Hero in Shakespeare by Urmilla Khanna Pdf

Author : Bernard McElroy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400855940

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Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies by Bernard McElroy Pdf

Despite their diversity in tone and subject matter, Shakespeare's four mature tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--all have an essential experience in common. Bernard McElroy defines this experience as the collapse of the subjective world of the tragic hero. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Ruth Nevo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400872602

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Tragic Form in Shakespeare by Ruth Nevo Pdf

A "symbolist" approach has dominated Shakespearean criticism for many years, but Ruth Nevo believes that the emphasis on static and pictorial aspects has obscured the essentially dynamic nature of dramatic expression and this study of the development of Shakespeare's tragic form is offered to correct the imbalance. From detailed analyses of each of Shakespeare's ten tragedies emerges a characteristic structure—a five-phased movement of discovery—that articulates and orders the traditional components of tragedy. This sequence is one of predicament, psychomachia, peripeteia, perspectives of irony and pathos, and catastrophe. It is a continuous, accumulative, and consummatory one, rather than a simple up-down movement or even a more complex thesis-antithesis-synthesis. Inheriting a five-act model and its developed rationale, Shakespeare used it to express an ever richer and more complex tragic experience. As the protagonist's life unfolds before us, the development of his tragic recognition is coextensive with the whole of the action. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781627932547

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Shakespeare's Tragedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

A collection containing Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Life of Timon of Athens, The tragedy of Titus Andronicus, and The History of Troilus and Cressida.

Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136568534

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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence by Kenneth Muir Pdf

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 befall him are exceptional; and the tragedies include the medieval idea of the reversal of fortune.

Author : Lourens Minnema
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441151049

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Tragic Views of the Human Condition by Lourens Minnema Pdf

Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?

Author : Lourens Minnema
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441100696

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Tragic Views of the Human Condition by Lourens Minnema Pdf

Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?

Author : D. Douglas Waters
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian drama, English
ISBN : 0838635288

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Christian Settings in Shakespeare's Tragedies by D. Douglas Waters Pdf

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.

Author : Raveenda Kurup
Publisher : Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Heroes in literature
ISBN : 8174889809

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The Tragedy And Tragic Heroes In Shakespeare by Raveenda Kurup Pdf

This Work Has Been Intended To Study The Dramatic Significance Of The Tragic Hero In Shakespeare S Major Tragedies. Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello And King Lear Have Been Chosen For Detailed Study, Because The Hero In Each Of These Is A Person Who Is Supreme, And Deeply Involved In Social And Personal Relationships. Shakespeare Shows The Tragedy Arising Out Of A Situation In Which The Hero Is Compelled To Involve And Waging A Ferocious Fighting Against Injustice And Vice Of The Society Of Which He Would Normally Be The Cynosure. Here The Hero Is Supreme And Unique. The Heroic Deed Of The Heroes Of Shakespeare Know No Measure Of Their Spiritual Growth.

Author : Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108474030

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Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by Emma Whipday Pdf

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.