Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

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U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 1993 - Literary Criticism - 279 pages
"This is a sane, hugely compassionate book that captures much of what is great about Shakespeare's dramatic vision of human vicissitudes."-Washington Times. "The book is a pleasure-jargon-free and clearly organized. It is also wise. Like Coleridge, sometimes Mack opens up sudden illuminations we wonder we never saw before."-Choice.

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Contents

Audience and Play
13
Play and History
39
The Ambiguities of Romeo and Juliet
69
The Modernity of Julius Caesar
91
Hamlet
107
Othello
129
King Lear
151
The Many Faces of Macbeth
183
What Happens in Shakespearean Tragedy
231
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About the author (1993)

Maynard Mack is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Among his publications areřKing Lear in Our Time, Rescuing Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope: A Life.

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