Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity

by Alexander Leggatt

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521608635
• ISBN13: 9780521608633
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"