The Music of the Close : The Final Scenes of Shakespeare's Tragedies / Walter C. Foreman, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foreman, Walter C., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tragedy.

Closure (Rhetoric).

Death in literature.

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

Shakespeare, William.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1978.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Walter Foreman studies the closing scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies, considering the tragic structure of the plays and the shapes the tragic characters give their lives by the way they encounter death.Foreman sees in the variety of tragic endings of the plays evidence that Shakespeare consciously experimented with tragic forms, for when he repeated he also changed, and changed more than superficially. Further, Foreman believes that these varieties and extensions of dramatic form were fundamentally a way of experiencing a various, often mysterious world. Extending and exploring t

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; 1. Tragic Death and Dull Survival; 2. An Art of Dying; 3. Hamlet; 4. King Lear; 5. Othello and Antony & Cleopatra; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813186122

0813186129

9780813162928

0813162920

OCLC:

561817315