Title: The mirror up to nature; the technique of Shakespeare's tragedies,
Authors: Whitaker, Virgil K. 1908-
Publisher: Huntington Library,
Year: 1965
Subjects: Shakespeare, William,; English drama (Tragedy) History and criticism
Contents: The gait of Christian, pagan : Shakespeare's tragic milieu -- The purpose of playing : the Elizabethan view of tragedy -- Piteous overthrows : Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar -- Form and pressure : Shakespeare's tragic maturity -- The rack of this tough world : Hamlet and King Lear -- The way to dusty death : Othello and Macbeth -- The world opposed : Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus.