Shakespearean Tragedy

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By Professor Kiernan Ryan

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Shakespearean Tragedy explores the prophetic and revolutionary vision embedded within Shakespeare's tragic plays, tracing their evolution from the early Henry VI series and Titus Andronicus through to Coriolanus. It offers four in-depth studies of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies—Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth—treating each as a complete dramatic work with unique concerns yet sharing a distinctive tragic vision. Through close analysis of language and form, Kiernan Ryan reveals how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his era with an eye on a transformative future still awaited by our world.
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This book will engage readers interested in Shakespearean drama, literary scholars, students of English literature, and those fascinated by the intersection of politics, time, and tragedy in classic works.

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This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare’s tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right through to his last, Coriolanus.

The four full-length studies at the heart of the book focus in depth on Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as a singular, complete work of dramatic art with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges, but with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at its core.

Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits.

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Richard Wilson, Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies, praises Shakespearean Tragedy as a master-class in understanding the revolutionary nature of time within Shakespeare’s works, highlighting the book’s insight into the plays as 'dreaming on things to come' for future generations. Kiernan Ryan is recognised for illuminating the "mutinous utopian logic" in Shakespeare’s drama, revealing how thought transcends confined reality to envision a more human future. The book is celebrated as a beautifully written and scrupulously crafted study.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472586988

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 312

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Professor Kiernan Ryan

About the Author

Kiernan Ryan is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and an Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.