Despite their diversity in tone and subject matter, Shakespeare's four mature tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--all have an essential experience in common. Bernard McElroy defines this experience as the collapse of the subjective world of the tragic hero.
Originally published in 1973.
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Autorentext
Bernard McElroy
Inhalt
- FrontMatter,
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
- CONTENTS,
- CHAPTER ONE. "And That's True Too": The World of Shakespearean Tragedy,
- CHAPTER TWO. Hamlet: The Mind's Eye,
- CHAPTER THREE. Othello: His Visage in His Mind,
- CHAPTER FOUR. King Lear: The Tempest in the Mind,
- CHAPTER FIVE. Macbeth: The Torture of the Mind,
- CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion,
- APPENDIX. "False" Rhetoric in Othello,
- INDEX,