Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy

by Northrop Frye

Book Overview

In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time," in which death as "the essential event that gives shape and form to life... defines the individual, and marks him off from the continuity of life that flows indefinitely between the past and the future."

In Dr. Frye's view, three general types can be distinguished in Shakespearean tragedy, the tragedy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802062156
• ISBN13: 9780802062154
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher