Description
A major critical study of Renaissance tragedy, looking at works by Shakespeare and other leading dramatists.
About the Author
Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature, University of Queensland, Australia and President of the International Shakespeare Association.
Reviews
[Holbrook's] short readings of individual plays ... are fresh, provocative and frequently illuminating ... There is a great deal to engage readers of all sorts in ... this book and it is much to be welcomed. * Around the Globe *
Relies on incisive close readings of individual characters to argue that the tragic genre served as a traditional vehicle for radical expressions of political subversiveness, religious heterodoxy, and cultural relativism. * Shakespeare Quarterly *
Book Information
ISBN 9781472572806
Author Dr Peter Holbrook
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 281g