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	TragedyLecture
		It is therefore inherent in Shakespearean tragedy that the tragic hero or protagonist is responsible through his own behavior or action, for the exceptional nature of the catastrophe itself.
		Tragedy is the typical form of this mystery because the greatness of soul which it shows oppressed, conflicting, and destroyed is the highest existence in our minds.
		First of all, in Shakespearean tragedy, we will be dealing with a man of high estate: a king, a prince, a general, etc. Normally, we will hear about him from others before he makes an entrance in the play.
	global.cscc.edu /engl/264/TragedyLex.htm (3284 words)

	Shakespearean Names - Boy And Girl Names
		'The Tragedy of Macbeth' A nobleman of Scotland.
		'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar' A servant to Brutus.
		'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar' Supportor of Brutus.
	www.mybirthcare.com /favorites/pg6/Shakespearean-names.asp (1011 words)

	Shakespearean tragedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like most Western tragedies, Shakespearean tragedy usually depicts a protagonist who falls from grace and dies, along with a fair proportion of the rest of the cast.
		Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career: one of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, and he followed it a few years later with Romeo and Juliet.
		However, his most admired tragedies were written in a seven-year period between 1601 and 1608: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth,and Antony and Cleopatra, along with the lesser-known Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shakespearean_tragedies (206 words)

	Tragedy
		The medieval tagedy is a prose or poetic narrative, not a drama.
		This view of tragedy derives from the Medieval concept of fortune, which was personified as Dame Fortune, a blindfolded woman who turned a wheel at whim; men were stationed at various places on the wheel--the top of the wheel represented the best fortune, being under the wheel the worst fortune.
		Christopher Marlowe's tragedies showed the resources of the English language with his magnificent blank verse, as in the Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, and the powerful effects that could be achieved by focusing on a towering protagonist, as in Tamburlaine.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/tragedy.html (722 words)

	SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY
		At its very least, Shakespearean tragedy is pre-eminently the story of one person, the hero (and on occasion the heroine).
		However, and this is important, the calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent by the gods; they proceed mainly from actions, and those are the actions of men.
		Consequently, the hero always contributes to the disaster in which he perishes; at the same time, the center of tragedy may be said to lie in action issuing from character or in character issuing in action.
	www.montreat.edu /dking/Shakespeare/TRAGEDY.htm (1926 words)

	Kent Cartwright: Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double
		Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double seeks answers in the moment-by-moment dynamics of performance and response, and the Shakespearean text signals those possibilities.
		Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double analyzes the development of the tragic audience as it oscillates between engagement—an immersion in narrative, character, and physical action—and detachment—a consciousness of its own comparative judgments, it doubts and of acting and theatricality.
		Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double treats the dramatic moment in Shakespearean tragedy as uncommonly charged, various, indeterminate, always negotiating unpredictably between the necessary and the spontaneous.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-00738-9.html (216 words)

	Encyclopedia: Shakespearean tragedy
		Jump to: navigation, search A tragedy may be defined loosely as any work of fiction in which the protagonist suffers a fall in his or her fortunes, and ends in a worse state than that in which they began.
		Shakespearean plays Jump to: navigation, search Romeo and Juliet is a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young lovers.
		Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shakespearean-tragedy (786 words)

	Shakespearean Tragedy
		The genre of tragedy is rooted in the Greek dramas of Aeschylus (525-456 B.C., e.g.
		Classical Tragedy: According to Aristotle's Poetics, tragedy involves a protagonist of high estate ("better than we") who falls from prosperity to misery through a series of reversals and discoveries as a result of a "tragic flaw," generally an error caused by human frailty.
		Renaissance tragedy derives less from medieval tragedy (which randomly occurs as Fortune spins her wheel) than from the Aristotelian notion of the tragic flaw, a moral weakness or human error that causes the protagonist's downfall.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl339/tragedy.html (936 words)

	What is Tragedy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In tragedy, the question leads to what is often called the "tragic dilemma"; that is, a situation in which the protagonist faces two equally difficult or unacceptable choices, either one of which leads to disaster.
		Tragedy arises when…a people fully aware of the calamities of life is nevertheless serenely confident of the greatness of man, whose mighty passions and supreme fortitude are revealed when one of these calamities overtakes him.
		Whereas Shakespearean tragedy showed an "irregular" construction in the variety of its scenes, structure, and characters, the classical French tragedy of the seventeenth century is modeled more closely on Aristotle’s observations, notably in its observance of the unities of time, place, and action.
	www.calvertonschool.org /waldspurger/pages/whatis.htm (2141 words)

	Tragedy from Shakespeare to the present day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tragedy demanded that those of high-rank were depicted because, according to Aristotle, Tragedy was the highest form of poetry and those of high-rank had an elevated style of speech (as in Hamlet’s soliloquies).
		The basic structure of Greek tragedy is the polarity between the anonymous, collective, representative chorus which expresses and forms the spectator’s responses and the masked, tragic, individual figure, who undergoes a series of trials which are more-or-less alien to everyday human experience.
		Shakespearean tragedy therefore exists at a vital moment of confluence: between Latinate and Anglo-Saxon English; between popular and aristocratic traditions and audiences; between a "rebirth" of the classical world and a new sense of individuality.
	www.mtsn.org.uk /acdepts/theastud/Tragedy.htm (10033 words)

	The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy - Cambridge University Press
		The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare’s tragedies.
		Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative.
		Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespearean tragedies (medieval, classical, and contemporary), cultural backgrounds (political, religious, social, and psychological), and the subgenres of Shakespeare’s tragedy (love tragedy, revenge tragedy, and classical tragedy), as well as the critical and theatrical receptions of the plays.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521790093 (360 words)

	The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare’s tragedies.
		Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative.
		Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespearean tragedies (medieval, classical, and contemporary), cultural backgrounds (political, religious, social, and psychological), and the subgenres of Shakespeare’s tragedy (love tragedy, revenge tragedy, and classical tragedy), as well as the critical and theatrical receptions of the plays.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=222 (162 words)

	The Essence of Shakespearean Tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"A Shakespearean tragedy is a five act play ending in the death of most of the major characters." This statement with others of its kind may accurately describe many of Shakespeare's plays, but if we are looking for the essence of Shakespearean tragedy we must look in an entirely different realm.
		Death is important in expressing tragedy because it is at the very heart of the paradox of disappointment.
		In the tragedies under consideration, death is not used as an extreme expression of human suffering.
	www.davidchandler.com /writings/Tragedy.htm (944 words)

	Shakespearean Tragedy \| Tragic Shakespearean Works \| Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Romeo and Juliet the main plot, in which the new love between Romeo and Juliet comes into conflict with the longstanding hatred between their families, is skillfully advanced, while the substantial development of minor characters supports and enriches it.
		Following this are The Merry Wives of Windsor (written to meet Queen Elizabeth's request for another play including Falstaff, it is not thematically typical of the period), Troilus and Cressida,All's Well That Ends Well,Measure for Measure,Othello,King Lear,Macbeth,Antony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens (the last may have been partially written by Thomas Middleton).
		The last two plays in the Shakespearean corpus, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, may be collaborations with John Fletcher.
	www.questia.com /library/literature/literature-of-specific-countries/british-literature/16th-century/shakespeare/shakespearean-tragedy.jsp (2026 words)

	10/27/99 -- Witches warn of global warming becoming a Shakespearean tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bonn, Germany - WWF, the conservation organization, today warned that proposals being considered by some governments at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn could allow industrialized countries to increase rather than reduce their emissions of global warming gases into the atmosphere.
		To warn the world about the consequences of cooking up a recipe for global warming, WWF summoned five Shakespearean "witches" to the UN conference.
		The powers of Shakespeare's witches in the tragedy "Macbeth" parallel the destructiveness of global warming.
	www.climateark.org /articles/1999/witchwar.htm (417 words)

	shakespearean tragedy - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Michael L. Hays, Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking...Woodcock Michael L. Hays, Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking...subordinates both comedy and tragedy to romance, arguing that both...
		Bradley is known for his Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), a classic work of criticism noted for its exposition of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth as psychological...
		...was criticized for mixing comedy and tragedy and failing to observe the unities of...analysis begun by Johnson, considered each Shakespearean character to be unique, but found a...morally biased, her work is a landmark in Shakespearean criticism.
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=shakespearean-tragedy (1479 words)

	Oedipus as a True Tragic Hero -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		In other tragedies, such as Shakespeare’s "King Lear" events evolves because of mistakes, Lear made a mistake of judgement and he was punished by the death of his favourite daughter and then his own death.
		Another Shakespearean tragedy "Macbeth" involves fate, Macbeth is told his future at the beginning of the play and it grows to an obsession, which in the end kills him.
		For tragedy to be true, a character must know what he, or she as in "Antigone", has done and then suffer for it.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/768 (946 words)

	Shakespearean Tragedy
		Included in the elements common to all of Shakespeare's tragedies is the death of the hero.
		By contrast, Sophoclean tragedy demands either the death or moral destruction of the hero.
		This being true, it is possible to propose the death of the hero as essential to labeling a tragedy "Shakespearean." Therefore, when Othello dies at the end of Othello, The Moor Of Venice it is for a more fundamental reason than that a different ending would not fit emotionally or psychologically.
	www.lausd.k12.ca.us /lausd/resources/shakespeare/Shakespearean.Tragedy.html (696 words)

	Shakespearean Scholars
		However, Bradley is probably best known for his work, Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), which centers on Shakespeare's four great plays, King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
		Hailed by many as England's greatest Shakespearean scholar of the eighteenth-century and possibly one of the greatest of all time.
		Rowse was an English historian and author who became one of the best-known Shakespearean scholars in recent times.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /scholars (3658 words)

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		The tragedy is about a Scottish Thane, Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, who, seemingly according to a prophecy of witches, becomes Thane of Cawdor, and King (King through treachery of course).
		From classic studies like Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy to the more recent Prosser's Hamlet and Revenge to the latest issue of Shakespearean Quarterly, criticism of Hamlet abounds, and few could keep pace with all but a fraction of its scope.
		A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY Shrewd and devious behaviour, especially for his own benefit is perpetuated by the manipulative and evil Iago throughout the Shakespearean tragedy Othello.
	www.lycos.com /info/shakespearean-tragedy.html (423 words)

	Techniques of Shakespeare
		A Shakespearean tragedy is more than a serious play having an unhappy ending.
		A Shakespearean tragedy is a serious blank verse play having an unhappy ending which comes as result of the combination of several dramatic events.
		Revenge Motive – One of the major characters in a Shakespearean tragedy is often motivated by a desire for revenge.
	cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu /blaggc/techniques_of_shakespeare.htm (513 words)

	Shakespearean Tragedy on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Relating to or characteristic of dramatic tragedy or tragedies: tragic plays; the tragic hero.
		The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy acquaints the student reader with the forms...
		Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding...
	www.bizzland.co.uk /hometv/shakespearean_tragedy.html (407 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 15, No. 3 - October 1958 - ARTICLE - The Meek Shall Inherit the Eeart: A Study In Shakespearean ...
		Whereupon I have argued with myself that the conventions of this particular art form, tragedy, require that the tangled strands of human conflict be tied neatly at the end.
		Furthermore, the tragedies written by Seneca to illustrate the varying aspects of his version of Stoic philosophy provide little light on why Shakespeare selected a meek man as the inheritor of power.
		Surely Shakespearean tragedy transcends this level of the human situation when it exalts man's perception of how he, created in the image of his Maker, aspires to harmony and order.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1958/v15-3-article7.htm (2409 words)

	Sequential Tart: Article - Moulin Rouge: Shakespearean Tragedy and Modern Day Musical (vol IV/iss 7/July 2000)
		Shakespearean methodology in a movie should be no surprise from the same man who gave us the postmodernist Romeo and Juliet.
		This, of course, is common in Shakespeare's tragedies and is always an excellent hint that the downfall of the lovers (that tragic flaw that I mentioned before) will relate to an excess of emotion.
		It is Satine who is at the core of the plot and she who is ravaged by the corruption of her world given literal flesh, as consumption.
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/july01/cv_0701_4.shtml (1925 words)

	Reviews of 'Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth (Penguin Classics)'
		He points out that Tragedy involves the fall of a great hero, but that this fall does not come as random event or as willful act of God, but rather through the results and consequences of the action of the hero himself.
		Bradley points out also that the death in tragedy is not the slow crawling death of an illness, but comes out of a sudden violent effect of the action.
		The heroes of tragedy and their stories somehow give us a feeling of life and its terrible end which magnifies our feeling of 'greatness' while somehow leaving us more humbled.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/0140530193.html (538 words)

	Free Essay Othello - The Greatest Tragedy
		The downfall of the central character is the main concept of the tragedy.
		Hubris and Hamartia are two components of a Shakespearean tragedy that are very much intertwined because of their basis on pride.
		Othello could be considered not to be a tragedy because of its violation of the unities of time, space, and action.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25466 (1248 words)

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