Shakespeare's Tragedies

by G.B. Harrison

Book Overview

First published in 1951.

G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare's tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the playwright's conspicuous gift among his contemporaries was a sympathy for joy and sorrow, pity and terror, and right and wrong of his people. The plays covered are: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415853508
• ISBN13: 9780415853507
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages