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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... pity , but not terror , at their fates . This is not to say that the play is inferior to or less moving than the others . It is perfect in its kind . It shows pure , youthful , tragic love in a poetry consummately suited to that love ...
... pity and tears . " I per- ceive , " he tells the mob , " you feel / The dint of pity . These are gracious drops " ( 3.2.193-94 ) . And he can weep too , spontaneously , as he sees tears in the messenger from Octavius . Brutus , “ an ...
... pity " ( 4.6.217-219 ) . Too many are there in the play to cite here all the exemplars of humankindness that make man pregnant to good pity . But most compelling are the two who first felt Lear's wrath and unkindness : Kent and Cordelia ...