Shakespeare's Early TragediesShakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'. The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays develop an understanding of Shakespeare's use of the stage picture in relation to the emblematic imagery of Elizabethan poetry. |
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... hands cut off : in this condition she is led on stage by her satisfied violaters , and stands there while her Uncle Marcus ... hand ; Lavinia picks it off the stage with her teeth ( because she has no hands ) , and finally Titus , with ...
... hands cut off : in this condition she is led on stage by her satisfied violaters , and stands there while her Uncle Marcus ... hand ; Lavinia picks it off the stage with her teeth ( because she has no hands ) , and finally Titus , with ...
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... hand TITUS : Gnawing with thy teeth ; and be this dismal sight The closing up of our most wretched eyes . Now is a time to storm ; why art thou still ? Ha , ha , ha ! MARCUS : Why dost thou laugh ? it fits not with this hour . Why , I ...
... hand TITUS : Gnawing with thy teeth ; and be this dismal sight The closing up of our most wretched eyes . Now is a time to storm ; why art thou still ? Ha , ha , ha ! MARCUS : Why dost thou laugh ? it fits not with this hour . Why , I ...
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... hand it is a purposive dramatic chain of events leading from the murder to the revenge and the restoration of order ( in the authority of Fortinbras ) ; on the other hand it is a succession of muddles and accidents leading to an ...
... hand it is a purposive dramatic chain of events leading from the murder to the revenge and the restoration of order ( in the authority of Fortinbras ) ; on the other hand it is a succession of muddles and accidents leading to an ...
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Aaron action ambivalence Antony audience beast becomes blank verse blood Bolingbroke Brutus Cassius character choric Clarence Clarence's Claudius climax comedy comic conscience contrast course criticism curse death divine doth Dover Wilson dramatic dream earlier plays echoes Elizabethan emblem emblematic emerges established experience fact Faerie Queene father figure final formal ghost Hamlet hath heaven and hell Henry heroic Horatio human irony judgement Julius Caesar kind king Laertes later plays Lavinia Lucius Lucrece Marcus Margaret Mercutio mode murder nature night nobility noble obvious Ophelia pattern play's poetic poetry political Polonius prose Queen Queen Mab question Rape of Lucrece revenge rhetorical Richard Richard II ritual Roman Rome Romeo and Juliet Saturninus scene seems sense sequence Shakespeare significance simple soliloquy Spanish Tragedy speech splendour stage storm stress structure suggested Tamora thee theme thing thou tion Titus Andronicus tone tragedy tragic utterance words