Shakespeare's Tragedies
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521316903
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare, William,; Plays; Drama; Plays / Drama; Tragedies; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Tragedies; 1564-1616; Tragedy
First sentence: WHEN THE EDITORS OF THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF Shakespeare's plays (the First Folio of 1623) decided on a classification of the thirty-six plays they had assembled, they divided them into three groups, namely 'Comedies', 'Histories' and 'Tragedies'.