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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... soul , he pictures for her the stench and sweat of her sexual nature : Nay , but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed , Stewed in corruption , honeying and making love Over the nasty sty― ( 3.4.92-95 ) She pleads with him to ...
... soul receive from this , the most compact and hard - hitting of Shakespeare's tragedies . That I Would All My Pilgrimage Dilate Although not supernatural to the degree that Hamlet is , Othello de- scends from a literary genre , the ...
... soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms , May the winds blow ' til they have wakened death ! Or let the laboring bark climb hills of seas Olympus - high , and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! ( 2.1.182-87 ) His use ...