Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Introduction

by Dieter Mehl

Book Overview

This book introduces the students and the general reader to Shakespeare's tragedies and to the problems of interpreting them. Traditional questions and answers regarding the texts, as well as their realization in performance, are examined, and it is shown how the plays do not offer easy of final solutions to the tragic dilemmas presented, but engage the reader and spectator in a debate with more than one possible outcome. Each of the tragedies is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521316901
• ISBN13: 9780521316903
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"