Shakespeare's Great Tragedies: Experiencing Their Impact

ISBN-13: 9780367665050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

John Hardy

Opis

Shakespeare's great tragedies portray through their richly imagined worlds the inescapable fact of human mortality. As the work of a great creative genius, they are so diverse that critical formulas used to describe their overall impact tend to be somewhat suspect. Their impact follows from a response to the entire dramatic action, what is felt

Spis treści

Introduction. Hamlet. Othello. King Lear. Macbeth. Conclusion. Notes

O autorze

John Hardy is a former Rhodes Scholar and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held chairs of English at three Australian universities, including the Australian National University. He is Emeritus Professor of Bond University.