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13) The imperial theme: further interpretations of Shakespeare's tragedies, including the Roman plays
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"The greater part of this volume is devoted to an exhaustive study of the Roman tragedies -- Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. It also contains the author's most complete interpretation of Macbeth." -- from book cover.
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Acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, and critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative.
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"Shows how the plays develop, in their various ways, the idea of a conflict between nature and the social structure. The idea has its roots in Shakespearean comedy, to which the book makes continuous reference. It also finds echoes in the tragic metaphysics of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer... The plays together, including those which are sometimes separately categorized as "problem plays", create a great tragic vision which always remains interlinked...
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