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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... evil to his racial origin . Although accompanying Tamora , he seems to come unneeded , from nowhere . Differing from villains in greater plays , he bears no relevance to the good characters , for his evil is not an allegorized or ...
... evil in the play . Unlike other tragedies , this play has no human villain . In this respect , it has the potential for a more basic commentary on mankind than those plays in which evil is comfortably attributed to some man or woman who ...
... Evil , is likewise admirably suggestive in helping us lift the play to an imaginative study of evil . Nor is Spi- vack's theory seriously shaken by an article , Leah Scragg's " Iago— Vice or Devil ?, " which claims precedence of the ...