Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy
Title | Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Irving Ribner |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780415353267 |
Exploring man's relation to his universe and the way in which it seeks to postulate a moral order, this title identifies Shakespeare's development of this concept and the ways in which he presented it as a growth in moral vision.
Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy
Title | Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Irving Ribner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136568883 |
First published in 1960. Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy is an exploration of man's relation to his universe and the way in which it seeks to postulate a moral order. Shakespeare's development is treated accordingly as a growth in moral vision. His movement from play to play is carefully explored, and in the treatment of each tragedy the emphasis is on the manner in which its central moral theme shapes the various elements of drama
Christian Settings in Shakespeare's Tragedies
Title | Christian Settings in Shakespeare's Tragedies PDF eBook |
Author | D. Douglas Waters |
Publisher | Associated University Presse |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780838635285 |
Battenhouse's Shakespearean tragedy: Its art and Christian premises, Irving Ribner's Patterns in Shakespearian tragedy, Virgil K. Whitaker's The mirror up to nature: The techniques of Shakespeare's tragedies, and Robert Grams Hunter's Shakespeare and the mystery of God's judgments. Waters questions, for example, Battenhouse's validity of Christian theological and didactic emphases on the old purgation theory of catharsis. His approach differs also from Northrop Frye's views on the tragedies in Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, an archetypal approach to representative plays including the tragedies.
Shakespeare's Tragedies
Title | Shakespeare's Tragedies PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Smith |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0470776897 |
This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies. Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions. Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context. Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.
Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory
Title | Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory PDF eBook |
Author | James Cunningham |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780838637111 |
Individual chapters deal with cultural materialism, new historicism, poststructuralism, and feminist criticism. The theoretical basis of each critical mode is examined and some representative critiques analyzed. Most importantly, in each chapter the various interpretations are tested against Shakespeare's texts, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different readings are assessed.
Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge
Title | Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Rolf Soellner |
Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0814201717 |
The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy
Title | The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | James C. Bulman |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780874132717 |
Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories.