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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... role alerts us to a familiar trait in Shakespeare's most attractive heroes : their noble vul- nerability to smaller , craftier men . These men take an influential role in Brutus's early suffering and the later debasing of his character ...
... role is not so brilliant as is usually supposed . It is simply to bring into clearer vision that view of himself and his role in the life that Othello has known well into middle age . In the context of the theory expressed in chapter 1 ...
... role as media- tor , 128 , 130 , 134 ; mother - son rela- tionship as a cause of tragedy , 128–29 , 130 , 135–36 ; patricians con- trasted with plebians , 127-29 ; plead- ing to save Rome : Coriolanus's family and Menenius , 134–36 ...