Five Great Tragedies
Subtitle: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
Contributors: Emma Smith (Introduction)
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9781853267994
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Shakespeare plays, texts; Shakespeare; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Drama; Plays / Drama; English; Plays; American; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: 'Not for an age but for all time'- So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; flamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King [ear. a man stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of evil. The plays throw a fascinating light on the concerns of Shakespeare's day, yet offer perennial insights into the nature of human emotion.
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