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Usongo, Kenneth,

Politics and romance in Shakespeare's four great tragedies / by Kenneth Usongo. - 1 online resource (145 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextualizing Shakespeare : Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Political ambition. Hamlet -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Othello -- A comparative analysis of political ambition -- Romantic ambition. Hamlet -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Othello -- Shakespeare's legacy.

This study of the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeare's tragic characters - including Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Iago, among others - discusses the overblown ambition of these characters as they embrace cunning and evil in order to acquire power and romance. The excessive ambition shown by these characters fuels action in the plays and significantly contributes to their downfall. In other words, the book interrogates, in a pluralist critical frame, the forces behind the quest for power and romance by Shakespeare's protagonists, and explores how these forces propel the.

ISBN: 9781443893329 (electronic bk.) 1443893323 (electronic bk.)

Source: 9781443893329 Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB795684 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 018364175 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Tragedies--Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1600-1699

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--17th century.
Politique et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--17e siècle.
Law.
Film, TV & radio.
DRAMA--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism and interpretation.
Politics and literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

LC Class. No.: PR2983 / .U86 2017eb

Dewey Class. No.: 822.3/3