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Shakespeare's tragedies reviewed : a spectator's role / Hugh Macrae Richmond.
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Author
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Date published
2015
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Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, [2015].
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragedies Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Accession number
83428671
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Class
Reading Room - 48 tragedies/RIC
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Physical description
xiii, 207 pages ; 23 cm.
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Contents: Introduction: The spectator and the dramatists -- Renaissance dramaturgy -- Richard III as "a tragedy with a happy ending" -- A spectator's view of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Lope de Vega's Castelvines y Monteses -- Interlude: Mixed modes throughout Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar and neoclassicism -- Hamlet : the spectator as detective -- Othello : Iago's audience -- Macbeth : satisfying the spectator -- Coriolanus : the spectator and aristotelianism -- Enjoying King Lear -- Antony and Cleopatra : comical/historical/tragical -- Cymbeline as resolution : tragical-comical-historical-pastoral -- Epilogue: Henry VIII and the two Noble Kinsmen.