Shakespeare's tragic cosmos
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Shakespeare's tragic cosmos
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Library & Science Information Center, Osaka Prefecture University
: pbk930.28/SH-38620900230990
Note
Bibliography: p. 258-299
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two models of nature in Renaissance culture, one hierarchical, in which everything has an appointed place, and the other contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation. This latter model informs Shakespeare's tragedy.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: 'Nature's fragile vessel'
- 2. A medieval approach: Chaucer's tale of love and strife
- 3. Romeo and Juliet
- 4. Julius Caesar
- 5. Hamlet
- 6. Othello
- 7. King Lear
- 8. Macbeth
- 9. Antony and Cleopatra.
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