Politics and romance in Shakespeare's four great tragedies / by Kenneth Usongo.

By:

Usongo, Kenneth [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Description: 1 online resource (145 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443893329
1443893323

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics and romance in Shakespeare's four great tragedies.DDC classification:

822.3/3 23

LOC classification:

PR2983 .U86 2017eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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