Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespearean Tragedy by Kiernan Ryan, published by Bloomsbury Academic on August 26, 2021, is a reprint edition comprising 312 pages. This book reveals the prophetic and revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare’s tragedies, tracing its development from the early works in the Henry VI plays and Titus Andronicus to his final tragedy, Coriolanus. The text includes in-depth studies of four of Shakespeare’s most significant tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, examining each as a complete work of dramatic art.
Readers will find compelling new interpretations grounded in close analysis of the language and form of these plays. Ryan engages with the distinctive concerns and critical challenges presented in each tragedy while highlighting the overarching Shakespearean tragic vision. The book contributes to the field of literary criticism by exploring how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his time, reflecting on the transfigured future that continues to resonate today.
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This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare’s tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right through to his last, Coriolanus. The four full-length studies at the heart of the book focus in depth on 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, but with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at its core. Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits.
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