This edition features an introduction which discusses the definition and nature of tragedy. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth are "considered to be the four central works of Shakespearean tragedy and must be included in any list of the world's finest gragic literature" --Amazon.com.
Shakespearian Tragedy
The Unnatural Scene: A Study in Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespeare's tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard's tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time.
The plays here--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--are considered to be the four central works of Shakespearean tragedy and must be included in any list of the world's finest tragic literature.
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
... Les Compagnies de la Propagation de la foi ( 1632-1685 ) . Paris , Grenoble , Aix , Lyon , Montpellier . 2000 ISBN : 2-600-00425-4 17. Marc VUILLERMOZ , Le Système des objets dans le théâtre français des années 1625-1650 .
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
By examiningthe tragic novels of Thomas Hardy on their own terms, we have an importantcounterpoint to Balthasar's argument that the novel is too prosaic fortheological reflection.
In this collection of essays, eminent Shakespearean scholars examine ten of these tragedies through a variety of postmodern frameworks: historical, linguistic and psychoanalytical.
... Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event— A thought which , quarter'd , hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward — I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do ' . ( IV.iv.39 ...