Ryan, Professor Kiernan
Shakespearean Tragedy
- ISBN 13:
- 9781472586988
- author:
- Ryan, Professor Kiernan
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- The Arden Shakespeare
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 312
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 15.5 x 2 centimetres (0.4
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Shakespeare,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
This groundbreaking book reveals the prophetic vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its development from the Henry VI plays to Coriolanus. Kiernan Ryan offers in-depth studies of four of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Through compelling new readings of these plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from a transfigured future that still awaits us. This book provides a fresh perspective on some of the most iconic works of dramatic art in the English language.
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