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Innocent Victims: Poetic Injustice in Shakespearean Tragedy

Innocent Victims: Poetic Injustice in Shakespearean Tragedy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 0485112957
ISBN13: 9780485112955
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Nov 5 2001
Pages: 149
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
This is a revised version of the book which was privately published by the author in 1982. At the time, the book was widely welcomed by Shakespearean scholars as a trenchant, scholarly and highly original contribution to the field of Shakespearean studies. The book's argument is that a full response to Shakespearean tragedy has to take account of the fate of the victims as well as of the tragic heroes; and this thesis is illustrated and developed by a consideration of Lavinia, Lucrece and the children in Richard III, Macbeth and King John; and to the three principal Shakespearean tragic victims, Ophelia, Desdemona and Cordelia. The author is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. his other works include 'Let Wonder Seem Familiar: Endings in Shakespeare's Romance Vision' and 'Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare'(forthcoming).

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