William Shakespeare: The TragediesSeries Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES AUTHORS, ENGLISH AUTHORS, and WORLD AUTHORS Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features: a critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works; a brief biography of the author; an accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author; aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index; and a readable style presented in a manageable length. |
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... Elizabethan passion for a crown , and his love for Zenocrate . Upon the death of his wife , Tamburlaine is passionate and mighty in a way that the Elizabethan stage had not known before : Behold me here , divine Zenocrate , Raving ...
... Elizabethan translation of Sir Thomas North . The play was to be fol- lowed almost a decade later by two other ... Elizabethans have been , at least by 36 Chapter Four ...
... Elizabethans that threat of war meant that a sin - sick land is to be scourged . This first scene describes at length ... Elizabethan thought . Military theorists and theologians warned repeatedly that its symptoms were those of a sinful ...