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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Shakespearean tragedy"”.
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The fascination of evil: mental malpractice in Shakespearean tragedy
… second part of the thesis is an analysis of the Shakespearean tragic hero’s encounter with elements of fascinating bewitchment, and the problems of discerning reality through the mesmeric pull of misperception. The specific subjects of the dramatic analysis are Othello and Macbeth.
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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays
… the application of counterfactual criticism to Shakespearean tragedy—supposing we are to ask, for example, “what if” Hamlet had done the deed, or, “what if” we could somehow disinherit our knowledge of Lear’s madness before reading King Lear. Such readings, mirroring critical practices in …
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Mis/Reading the Hero: a Case For Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
Traditionally, Shakespearean scholars have interpreted Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus as the play's villain. These scholars have held to the notion that as the villain, Aaron is evil incarnate and embodies all that countermands the order of the Roman patriarchy. I assert that these scholars …
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The function of imagery in Antony and Cleopatra
… and listing of all the images in a mature Shakespearean tragedy; and, (B) the classification of these images according to what appears to be their technical function in the drama itself.</p>
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Stages of imprisonment : Shakespeare and his contemporaries
… prison language and actual imprisonment in Shakespearean tragedy and romance. In the tragedies, prison metaphors vie for effective control, as language is both restricted and made eloquent by the state of imprisonment. In Shakespeare's romances, prison words cause actual imprisonment beyond …
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
… used the term to refer to a recurring motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the irrational law of society, which is the case in such comedies as As You Like It …