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... TRAGEDY Shakespearian tragedy derives ultimately from Roman and Greek tragedy on the one hand , and the mediaeval religious spectacle of the Dance of Death on the other . Superficially , a tragedy is a dramatic presentation of ' crime ...
... TRAGEDY Shakespearian tragedy derives ultimately from Roman and Greek tragedy on the one hand , and the mediaeval religious spectacle of the Dance of Death on the other . Superficially , a tragedy is a dramatic presentation of ' crime ...
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... tragedy , Shakespearian tragedy too effects a Katharsis a cleansing - a beyonding a transcending - of the emotions and passions that rage in the human breast and are duly reflected in the play's action . And for this Katharsis to happen ...
... tragedy , Shakespearian tragedy too effects a Katharsis a cleansing - a beyonding a transcending - of the emotions and passions that rage in the human breast and are duly reflected in the play's action . And for this Katharsis to happen ...
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... tragedy nor even recognise it ; and the dramatist without this Promethean gift of the imagination , which is heat and light and life at once , cannot create poetic tragedy . The central mystery of life is that we must almost die ( some ...
... tragedy nor even recognise it ; and the dramatist without this Promethean gift of the imagination , which is heat and light and life at once , cannot create poetic tragedy . The central mystery of life is that we must almost die ( some ...
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CONTENTS | 1 |
THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE | 35 |
vi From Textual to Literary Criticism | 57 |
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