| Description |
1 online resource (145 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This study of the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeare's tragic characters - including Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Iago, among others - discusses the overblown ambition of these characters as they embrace cunning and evil in order to acquire power and romance. The excessive ambition shown by these characters fuels action in the plays and significantly contributes to their downfall. In other words, the book interrogates, in a pluralist critical frame, the forces behind the quest for power and romance by Shakespeare's protagonists, and explores how these forces propel the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Usongo, Kenneth. Politics and romance in Shakespeare's four great tragedies. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 144385185X (OCoLC)972570073 |
| ISBN |
9781443893329 (electronic book) |
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1443893323 (electronic book) |
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144385185X |
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9781443851855 |
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