Shakespearean Tragedy, David Scott Kastan '"A rarity most beloved:" Shakespeare and the idea of Tragedy' 2003
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- Shakespearean Tragedy, David Scott Kastan '"A rarity most beloved:" Shakespeare and the idea of Tragedy' 2003
- 'Chaucer was the first to use the word 'tragedy'
- He defined tragedy as 'a literary composition written in happier times recalling events that ended in misery'
- His 'definitional reserves finds its most powerful analogue in the agonizing silences of Shakespeare's tragedies'
- 'Is't possible? confess handkerchief o devil'
- Iago lets Othello fall in a trance here as part of his poisonous tactics to feed his evil ideas to him
- 'Is't possible? confess handkerchief o devil'
- His 'definitional reserves finds its most powerful analogue in the agonizing silences of Shakespeare's tragedies'
- He defined tragedy as 'a literary composition written in happier times recalling events that ended in misery'
- Chaucer defined tragedy as 'to segn a dite of a prosperite for a tyme'
- This is somewhat limited, obvious and unhelpful in over hypertheoretical age, but calls attention to tragedies power, marking it as universal and inexplicable
- Hypertheoretical; tending to produce losts of theories
- This is somewhat limited, obvious and unhelpful in over hypertheoretical age, but calls attention to tragedies power, marking it as universal and inexplicable
- 'Chaucer was the first to use the word 'tragedy'
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