San Antonio College Library

"This comprehensive and well-informed study is also a work of detection and reappraisal. Each tragedy is given individual attention both as a text and as a play to experience in performance. This enables the reader to follow step by step Shakespeare's long engagement with this theatrical form, from his early years of experiment until the concluding period of intense and sustained activity."--Jacket.

Before the explication of each tragedy, an introductory chapter will present hypotheses for the enduring appeal and meaning of the tragedy.