Shakespearean Tragedy

This ground-breaking book explores Shakespeare's tragic vision, tracing its development from Henry VI plays to Coriolanus. It focuses on four greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, demonstrating how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the perspective of the transfigured future.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 26 August 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This groundbreaking book unveils the prophetic, revolutionary vision that underpins Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from his early Henry VI plays and his first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, to his final masterpiece, Coriolanus. The four comprehensive studies at the heart of the book delve into Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies in depth: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as unique, complete works of dramatic art, with their own distinct concerns and critical challenges, yet with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at their core. Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan demonstrates how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the perspective of the transfigured future that our world still awaits.

Weight: 478g
Dimension: 156 x 233 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472586988