A Companion to Shakespeare's Works
Subtitle: The Tragedies
Contributors: Richard Dutton (Editor); Jean Howard (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780631226321
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Performing Arts/Dance; British Isles; Europe; Shakespeare; Literary Criticism / Shakespeare; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616_CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616_TRAGEDIES; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General
First sentence: It is upon the pillars of the great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth - that Shakespeare's reputation most securely rests, and indeed it is the tragic plays in general that seem most robustly to confirm Shakespeare's greatness.