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Shakespearean tragedy : Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth / Kiernan Ryan.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2983 .R93 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Kiernan, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--Tragedies.
- Drama.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 293 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arden Shakespeare, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I
- 1. The Birth of Shakespearean Tragedy: 2 & 3 Henry VI
- The Quondam King
- The Wild Morisco
- The Upstart Crow
- The Devil's Butcher
- PART II
- 2. Titus Andronicus: A Sympathy of Woe
- Prototypes and Precursors
- A Wilderness of Tigers
- This Fearful Slumber
- 3. Romeo and Juliet: Kissing by the Book
- Strange Love Grown Bold
- The Prison-House of Language
- Empowering the Audience
- 4. Julius Caesar: The Common Good
- An Icy Anatomy
- Scorning the Base Degrees
- The Foremost Man of All the World
- PART III
- 5. Hamlet: A Kind of Fighting
- The Stamp of One Defect
- Seeing Doubles
- That Within Which Passes Show
- Things Rank and Gross in Nature
- The Whips and Scorns of Time
- The Strong Conflux of Contending Forces
- A King of Infinite Space
- The Prophetic Soul of the Wide World
- 6. Othello: Thereby Hangs a Tail
- Expectation in Preference to Surprise
- Sinking Below Shakespeare
- True Colours
- The Green-Eyed Monster
- Who Hath Done This Deed?
- The Tragedy of the Handkerchief
- If Wives Do Fall
- Motiveless Malignity and the Curse of Service
- What You Know, You Know
- A Pageant to Keep Us in False Gaze
- 7. King Lear: Shakespeare's Leviathan
- A Play Fit for a King
- Echoes and Anticipations (i)
- Echoes and Anticipations (ii)
- A Better Where to Find
- The Whoreson and the Plague of Custom
- The Fool and the King
- The Art of Known and Feeling Sorrows
- The King and the Beggar
- So Distribution Should Undo Excess
- A Whole Dead World Galloping Over the Living Earth
- 8. Macbeth: The Habit of Another Nature
- Embracing the Butcher
- Supernatural Soliciting
- Terrestrial Tragedy
- The Language of Complicity
- Vaster Powers Without: Mirroring Macbeth
- So Much More the Man
- Dispossession and Disavowal
- Pity, Like a Naked New-Born Babe
- Blood Will Have Blood
- Ere Humane Statute Purged the Gentle Weal
- PART IV
- 9. Antony and Cleopatra: Making Defect Perfection
- Tragedy Travestied
- The Nobleness of Life
- Past the Size of Dreaming: Utopian Realism
- A Lass Unparalleled
- 10. Coriolanus: A World Elsewhere
- Antecedents and Affinities
- An Inventory to Particularize Their Abundance
- To Unbuild the City and to Lay All Flat
- A Kind of Nothing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781472586995
- 1472586999
- 9781472586988
- 1472586980
- OCLC:
- 1064668457
- Publisher Number:
- 99989054131
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