Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. I say there is no darkness but ignorance. ...
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Known as one of the most dramatic stories that Shakespeare has written, the play of Othello unravels in to a tragic epidemic of murders all strategized by the antagonist, Iago. Displayed with a wonderful love story depicting a couple working together to defeat all social criticism, popular stere...
and few of Shakespeare 's works are as well-known as Macbeth. The play 's epic tale of ambition and greed never fails to captivate audiences. The major themes of this quintessential work are hackneyed in the world of literary criticism: the role of ambition inMacbeth's demise, the role ...
Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare... PA Kottman - 《Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare》 被引量: 6发表: 2009年 Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism This widely adopted critical edition presents the 1974 text of the play along with ...
Critics such as Charles Dibdin argued that Rosaline had been included in the play in order to show how reckless the hero was and that this was the reason for his tragic end. Others argued that Friar Laurence might be Shakespeare's spokesman in his warnings against undue haste. At the ...
(1.3.333)—is broken not with the torture that Lodovico has ordered but by the results of what he himself has engineered. The ‘tragic loading of the bed’ is a positive reminder not only of what might have been, but of what might be. ...
Less bleak than the tragedies, these four plays are graver in tone than the comedies of the 1590s, but they end with reconciliation and the forgiveness of potentially tragic errors. Some commentators have seen this change in mood as evidence of a more serene view of life on Shakespeare's ...
This is one of Shakespeare’s later plays, variously described as a romance, a comedy, or (as Winterson tells it) a play about forgiveness. It is indeed funny at times, although also tragic and pathos-ridden: in an echo ofOthello, a jealous royal husband accuses his wife and best friend...
Modern Tragic Discourses and the Subversiveness of Shakespeare's Tragedies: King Lear 喜欢 0 阅读量: 19 作者:Koh,Sukkee 摘要: Until the 1960s, criticism of King Lear was dominated by overtly or implicitly Christian accounts. Despite the play's pagan setting and deliberate reduction of the ...