Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespearean Tragedy.
An introduction to one of Shakespeare’s earliest and best regarded poems, the revenger’s tragedy of The Rape of Lucrece.
An introduction to Shakespeare’s romance Pericles, Prince of Tyre, which throws his protagonist across the Mediterranean in a variety of shipwrecks.
An introduction to the first of Shakespeare’s late comedies or romance plays, Cymbeline, a tale of evil and virtue rewarded (eventually).
An introduction to one of Shakespeare’s least successful and least loved plays, the tragedy Timon of Athens.
An introduction to the last of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Coriolanus, in which a grand old general tries and fails to make honour more important than justice.
An introduction to one of the most complex and divisive of Shakespeare’s plays, the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra.
An introduction to Macbeth, the most bloody and viscerally disturbing of Shakespeare’s tragedies.
Shakespeare is considered as one of the greatest writers in English Literature. His works are famous for his comprehensiveness, plot construction, and characterization.