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Kiernan Ryan - Shakespearean Tragedy, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Shakespearean Tragedy

Av Kiernan Ryan

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This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare’s tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right through to his last, Coriolanus. The four full-length studies at the heart of the book focus in depth on Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as a singular, complete work of dramatic art with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges, but with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at its core. Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-08-26
  • Mått: 156 x 232 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 480 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781472586988
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Kiernan Ryan is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and an Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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Kiernan Ryan approaches Shakespearean tragedy like a visitor from the future, to reveal how these centuries-old plays still ‘dream on things to come’ through the politics of time. He shows how the lovers are crossed by stars dead for millennia; and why the light that breaks in their day is a dawn that hasn’t yet arrived. But we are the future Hamlet awaits, in Ryan’s time frame; Cordelia’s ‘smiles and tears’ are our cues for ‘a better way’. So, this is truly a world turned upside-down, where the hero counts the ‘hours, days, years’ before ‘desolation begins to make a better life’. In short, Shakespearean Tragedy gives us a master-class in ‘the revolution of the times’.

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