The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Imagine that, as in the current vogue of Saturday night British television, you are watching the Top 100 Shakespearean TragicMoments.What will reach the top five? Macbeth clutching at an imaginary dagger? Lear with Cordelia in his arms? Cleopatra holding the asp to her breast? Juliet falling on R...
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Apress
2013
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35406 |
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| Tóm tắt: | Imagine that, as in the current vogue of Saturday night British television, you
are watching the Top 100 Shakespearean TragicMoments.What will reach the
top five? Macbeth clutching at an imaginary dagger? Lear with Cordelia in his
arms? Cleopatra holding the asp to her breast? Juliet falling on Romeo’s body?
Number one would surely have to be one of two iconic moments fromHamlet:
‘Alas, poor Yorick’ or ‘To be or not to be’. Do these moments have anything
in common that helps us towards a definition of Shakespearean tragedy? The
only more or less common factor is perhaps a relentless focus on the solitary
individual; but this may be less an effect of Shakespearean tragedy itself than of
a post-Romantic way of reading Shakespearean tragedy almost solely through
the lens of the tragic hero |
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