Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe

by Paul A. Kottman

Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays--As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest.

The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questions that have been missing from scholarship of the past generation: Are we still moved by Shakespeare, and why? Kottman throws into question...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801893712
• ISBN13: 9780801893711
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"