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A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies
This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts which produced them.
- GenresCriticism
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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July 10, 2009
Half this book is about background - history of the British Isles, Elizabethan and Jacoben theater, Shakespeare's resources and a bit of biography - and the other half is critical analysis of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear, with comments on Will's other plays as well. It's academic enough but well within the reach of nonprofessionals, although some familiarity with the four plays probably let me enjoy the book more thoroughly.
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