Shakespeare : the tragedies / John Russell Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, John Russell.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.

Shakespeare, William.

Tragedy.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragedies.

Local Subjects:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragedies.

Physical Description:

viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, [2001]

Summary:

This comprehensive and well-informed study is also a work of detection and reappraisal. Each tragedy is considered both as a text and as a play to experience in performance. Shakespeare's engagement with this form of drama is followed step-by-step until its concluding years of intense activity. No theory of tragedy emerges, but rather an increasing ability to maintain and communicate a clear-eyed perception of a changing and often violent society in which action is stronger than words or conscious intention.

Contents:

1 A Theatre for Tragedy 1

2 Titus Andronicus: Shakespeare's First Tragedy 9

3 Popular Tragedies and their Audiences 33

4 Richard the Third and Richard the Second: Historical Tragedies 50

5 Romeo and Juliet: an Innovative Tragedy 76

6 From King John to Julius Caesar: Histories and Heroes 99

7 Julius Caesar: Unsettling an Audience 108

8 Hamlet I: Sources and Contexts 134

9 Hamlet II: Stage Action and Audience Reaction 155

10 Othello: Sexuality and Difference 190

11 King Lear: Part One 226

12 King Lear: Part Two 256

13 Macbeth: Power and the Imagination 284

14 Antony and Cleopatra: a View of Greatness 317

15 Coriolanus: Power and Uncertainty 342

16 Timon of Athens: Beyond Tragedy 364.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 367) and index.

ISBN:

0333589564

0333589572

OCLC:

44133044