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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... questions . Juliet questions , in the terms of piteousness one would expect of a girl , why her mother would force her to marry Paris . The question she cries , which , in more portentous form , will be asked again in King Lear , is ...
... question . ( 2.1.10-13 ) Readers familiar with Shakespeare's next tragedy , Hamlet , may be for- given for seeing in " there's the question " an anticipation of " That is the question . " Both occur in soliloquies - speeches often ...
... question we might find the answer to the rifts of mankind . But Shakespeare , to quote Arnold again , will not abide our question . Then we turn to Hamlet and the question of " To be , or not to be " ( Ham 3.1.56 ) . Nor should we ne ...