Shakespeare the tragedies / Nicolas Tredell ; consultant editor Nicolas Tredell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tredell, Nicolas, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Readers' guides to essential criticism

Reader's guides to essential criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

xii, 202 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave, 2015.

Summary:

Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell: introduces essential concepts themes and debates, relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fields of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy, summaries major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to Janet-Adelman and Julia Reinhard Lupton, and covers influential critical movements as New Criticism, New Historicism and poststructuralism, demonstrates how key critical approaches work in practice, with close refernce to Shakespeare's texts. Informed and incisive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed contested and changed over the years. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Augustans 9

Chapter 2 The Romantics 17

Chapter 3 The Victorians 26

Chapter 4 Character and Correlative 30

Chapter 5 Psychoanalysis and Desire 40

Chapter 6 Imagery and Form 51

Chapter 7 Archetype and Absurdity 68

Chapter 8 History and Subjectivity 83

Chapter 9 Gender and Sexuality 101

Chapter 10 Ethnicity and Ecology 120

Chapter 11 Philosophy and Ethics 137

Chapter 12 Religions and Reformations 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-193) and index.

ISBN:

1137404892

9781137404893

9781137404886

1137404884

OCLC:

900011351