Shakespeare's tragedies : an anthology of modern criticism

Shakespeare's tragedies : an anthology of modern criticism / edited by Laurence Lerner.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lerner, Laurence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Penguin Books, 1963.
Series:Pelican books, A645
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Tragedies.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Romeo and Juliet
  • Wordplay in Romeo and Juliet / M.M. Mahood
  • Romeo and Juliet in the cycle of SHakespeare
  • Charles Williams
  • II. Julius Caesar b-- Guilt and innocence in Julius Caesar / David Daiches
  • The ides of March / Roy Fuller
  • III. Hamlet
  • Hamlet psychoanalysed / Ernest Jones
  • Hamlet: the prince or the poem? / C.S. Lewis
  • Hamlet: a study in critical method / A.J.A. Waldock
  • A letter to John Barrymore / Bernard Shaw
  • IV. Othello
  • Iago / A.C. Bradley
  • The hero and the devil / Maud Bodkin
  • Honest in Othello / William Empson
  • Modes of irony in Othello / R.B. Heilman
  • V. King Lear
  • On sitting down to read King Lear once again / John Keats
  • The moral of King Lear / George Orwell
  • King Lear and the comedy of the grotesque / G. Wilson Knight
  • The catharsis of King Lear / J. Stampfer
  • Shakespeare's rituals and the opening scene of King Lear / William Frost
  • VI. Macbeth
  • The atmosphere of Macbeth / A.C. Bradley
  • The capital difficulty of Macbeth / Sir Arthur Quiller Couch
  • Shakespeare's tragic villain / Wayne Booth
  • Macbeth as a dramatic poem / L.C. Knights
  • Tragic structure / R.S. Crane
  • The "language of props" in Macbeth / Alan S. Downer
  • Macbeth and Oedipus / W.H. Auden
  • VII. Antony and Cleopatra
  • The construction of Antony and Cleopatra / Harley Granville Barker
  • The style of Antony and Cleopatra / J. Middleton Murry
  • The morality of Antony and Cleopatra / W.K. Wimsatt
  • VIII. Coriolanus
  • Coriolanus as political character / John Palmer
  • Shakespeare's politics / Eric Bentley
  • IX. Timon of Athens
  • Introduction to Timon of Athens / J.C. Maxwell
  • X. On tragedy: and on Shakespearian tragedy
  • The Dionysiac Greek / Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The implications of tragedy / Clifford Leech
  • The Elizabethan view of tragedy / Donatus
  • Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca / T.S. Eliot
  • Gold morning, sweet prince / Delmore Schwartz.

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