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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... revenge tragedy ( including The Spanish Tragedy , Hamlet , and Othello ) , suffers in an attempt to achieve justice before revenge . And he turns to re- venge only when his " miseries are more than may be borne " ( 3.1.243 ) . These ...
... revenge tradition that underlies it , and that gives it gripping excitement , would have struck contemporary audiences as profoundly different from such bloody tragedies as they were used to . It was a hero who , because of his sensi ...
... revenge tradition . But those ele- ments that would have most pleased and been recognized by the audi- ence are the burden of revenge , the ghost , madness , incest , delay , and appropriateness in technique of revenge . What the ...