H. B. Charlton was Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, in
the years 1946-1947. In this volume on Shakespeare's tragedies,
originally published in 1948, he opposes those critics who focus
solely on Shakespeare's words and metaphors. For Charlton, these
'moderns' missed the greatest aspect of Shakespeare: his mastery of
stagecraft. This book thus considers Shakespeare's tragedies
specifically as plays, written for performance and for an audience.
Charlton also engages with the humanist elements, arguing that
Shakespeare's dramas are chiefly explorations of man and morality,
rather than of religion or metaphysics. Charlton's work is an
in-depth analysis of Shakespeare's tragedies, complete with an
introduction that gives a significant insight into the fresh ways
of reading Shakespeare that emerged during the 1940s. This text
will primarily be of use to scholars of Shakespearean tragedy, but
will also intrigue anyone with an interest in the changing
reception of Shakespeare's works.
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