Shakespearean Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9781472586988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

UK) University of London Professor Kiernan (Royal Holloway

Opis

This ground-breaking study reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision at the heart of Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as a singular, complete work of dramatic art with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges. Through compelling new readings of the plays, couched in lively, accessible prose and grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan transforms our understanding of Shakespearean tragedy by revealing the radical egalitarian perspective from which it is conceived and written. In recent decades criticism has striven to entrench these plays in the culture of the distant past from which they sprang. This book frees them to show how Shakespeare dramatises the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits.

Spis treści

Preface PART I 1 The Birth of Shakespearean Tragedy: 2 & 3 Henry VI The Quondam King The Wild Morisco The Upstart Crow The Devil’s Butcher PART II 2 Titus Andronicus: A Sympathy of Woe Prototypes and Precursors A Wilderness of Tigers This Fearful Slumber 3 Romeo and Juliet: Kissing by the Book Strange Love Grown Bold The Prison-House of Language Empowering the Audience 4 Julius Caesar: The Common Good An Icy Anatomy Scorning the Base Degrees The Foremost Man of All the World PART III 5 Hamlet: A Kind of Fighting The Stamp of One Defect Seeing Doubles That Within Which Passes Show Things Rank and Gross in Nature The Whips and Scorns of Time The Strong Confluence of Contending Forces A King of Infinite Space The Prophetic Soul of the Wide World 6 Othello: Thereby Hangs a Tail Expectation in Preference to Surprise Sinking Below Shakespeare True Colours The Green-Eyed Monster Who Hath Done This Deed? The Tragedy of the Handkerchief If Wives Do Fall Motiveless Malignity and the Curse of Service What You Know, You Know A Pageant to Keep Us in False Gaze 7 King Lear: Shakespeare’s Leviathan A Play Fit for a King Echoes and Anticipations (i) Echoes and Anticipations (ii) A Better Where to Find The Whoreson and the Plague of Custom The Fool and the King The Art of Known and Feeling Sorrows The King and the Beggar So Distribution Should Undo Excess A Whole Dead World Galloping Over the Living Earth 8 Macbeth: The Habit of Another Nature Embracing the Butcher Supernatural Soliciting Terrestrial Tragedy The Language of Complicity Vaster Powers Without: Mirroring Macbeth So Much More the Man Dispossession and Disavowal Pity, Like a Naked New-Born Babe Blood Will Have Blood Ere Humane Stature Purged the Gentle Weal PART IV9 Antony and Cleopatra: Making Defect Perfection Tragedy Travestied The Nobleness of Life Past the Size of Dreaming: Utopian Realism A Lass Unparalleled 10 Coriolanus: A World Elsewhere Antecedents and Affinities An Inventory to Particularize Their Abundance To Unbuild the City and to Lay All Flat A Kind of Nothing Works Cited Index