Shakespeare: The Tragedies

by John Russell Brown and John Russell-Brown

Book Overview

This comprehensive and well-informed study is also a work of detection and reappraisal. Each tragedy is considered both as a text and as a play to experience in performance. Shakespeare's engagement with this form of drama is followed step-by-step until its concluding years of intense activity. No theory of tragedy emerges, but rather an increasing ability to maintain and communicate a clear-eyed perception of a changing and often violent society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333589564
• ISBN13: 9780333589564
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"