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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... thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls " ( 1.4.56 ) . In them re- crimination for delay takes the form of self ... thought who have placed upon them an incongenial burden , made even more intolerable by the crude environment that ...
... thought , to say a sorry sight " ( 2.2.21 ) . What , as a committed fiend , she cannot grasp is his horror at being unable to say " Amen " ( 2.2.28 ) when one of the grooms said " God bless us " ( 2.2.29 ) . There is surely mounting ...
... thought - out study of Timon of Athens , Macbeth , Antony and Cleopatra , and Coriolanus , whose characters live in a paradoxical world distinct from King Lear and earlier tragedies . Their nobility is one of life's mysteries , for it ...