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Everybody's Shakespeare brings the insights and wisdom of one of the finest Shakespearean scholars of our century to the task of surveying why the Bard continues to flourish in modern times. Mack treats individually seven plays - Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, and Antony and Cleopatra - and demonstrates in each case how the play has retained its vitality, complexity, and appeal. --
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Despite their diversity in tone and subject matter, Shakespeare's four mature tragedies -- Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth -- all have an essential experience in common. Bernard Mc Elroy defines this experience as the collapse of the subjective world of the tragic hero. The world-view of the central character is undermined at a fundamental level; his basic assumption about who he is and what is reality are rendered untenable, and he must struggle...
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"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.
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One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyses the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument...
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Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity traces the linked themes of violation and identity through seven Shakespearean tragedies, beginning with the rape of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus. The implications of this event -- its physical and moral shock, the way it puts Lavinia's identity, and the whole notion of identity, into crisis -- reverberate through Shakespeare's later tragedies. Through close, theatrically informed readings of Titus Andronicus,...
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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...
18) Good: a tragedy
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Good (1981), is probably Taylor's most successful work. The play, follows a liberal German professor Halder, whose moral cowardice and subtle corruption leads to his involvement with the Nazi war machine and Auschwitz, in the world of the Third Reich (the title is of course ironic: Halder always see himself as a 'good man' even as he is drawn further and further into Hitler's nightmare).
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Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'. The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays develop an understanding of Shakespeare's...
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