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Shakespeare's Tragedies Reviewed - A Spectator's Role (Hardcover, New edition)
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Shakespeare's Tragedies Reviewed - A Spectator's Role (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Studies in Shakespeare, 22
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Shakespeare's Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of
spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed
character of Shakespeare tragedies. Utilizing Shakespeare's
European models and contemporaries, including Cinthio and Lope de
Vega, and following forms such as Aristotle's second, more popular
style of tragedy (a double ending of punishment for the evil and
honor for the good), Hugh Macrae Richmond elicits radical revision
of traditional interpretations of the scripts. The analysis
includes a major shift in emphasis from conventionally tragic
concerns to a more varied blend of tones, characterizations, and
situations, designed to hold spectator interest rather than to meet
neoclassical standards of coherence, focus, and progression. This
reinterpretation also bears on modern staging and directorial
emphasis, challenging the relevance of traditional norms of tragedy
to production of Renaissance drama. The stress shifts to plays'
counter-movements to tragic tones, and to scripts' contrasting
positive factors to common downbeat interpretations - such as the
role of humor in King Lear and the significance of residual
leadership in the tragedies as seen in the roles of Malcolm, Edgar,
Cassio, and Octavius, as well as the broader progressions in such
continuities as those within Shakespeare's Roman world from Julius
Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra to Cymbeline. It becomes apparent
that the authority of the spectator in such Shakespearean titles as
What You Will and As You Like It may bear meaningfully on
interpretation of more plays than just the comedies.
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