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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The Tragedies Paul A. Jorgensen. A Wilderness of Tigers Perhaps an audience's response is the best clue to how blame in the play is to be assigned . And this response is almost irresistibly condi- tioned not by the way the Andronici ...
... response . Lucius tells him that " no tribune hears you speak " ( 3.1.32 ) . But plead he must , and " Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones " ( 3.1.37 ) . The verse of pleading becomes more passionate and moving than before , even ...
... Response . London : Macmillan ; New York : Barnes and Noble , 1976 . Asserts that Shakespeare was ingenious in the manipulation of his audi- ence and artful in the control of their response . Focus limited to specific central issues ...