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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... eyes . ( 5.3.171-74 ) But it is of course Lear's majestic entrance that counts in this great but seemingly simple beginning of the scene . Lear's behavior and Cordelia's response are two of the big " problems " of the play , and as such ...
... eyes are affected . Only a man who feels can transmute prosaic fear into " I have supp'd full with horrors " ( 5.5.13 ) . Shakespeare has achieved one of the most thrilling and painful of murder stories through what might be considered ...
... eye wink at the hand ; yet let that be Which the eye fears , when it is done , to see . ( 1.4.50-53 ) The speech is also characteristically at Macbeth's expense ironic . He asks for , and is granted in a juggling sense , a kind of moral ...