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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only... →
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of... →
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly... →
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic... →
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer... →
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is... →
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to... →
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus... →
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work... →
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he... →
In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we... →
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them... →