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Summary. ‘Double, double toil and trouble . . .’. An eminent Shakespearean scholar famously remarked that there is no such thing as Shakespearean Tragedy: there are only Shakespearean tragedies. Attempts (he added) to find a formula which fits every one of Shakespeare's tragedies and distinguishes them collectively from those of other ...
Shakespeare schreef in het begin van zijn carrière diverse tragedies. Een van zijn vroegste was de Romeinse tragedie Titus Andronicus (ca. 1590), die een paar jaar later werd gevolgd door Romeo and Juliet. Zijn meest bewonderde tragedies schreef hij echter in een periode van zeven jaar, tussen 1601 en 1608.
Thomas Platter, a Swiss traveller, saw a tragedy about Julius Caesar at a Bankside theatre on 21 September 1599. This was most likely Shakespeare's play. There is no immediately obvious alternative candidate. (While the story of Julius Caesar was dramatised repeatedly in the Elizabethan/Jacobean period, none of the other plays known are as good a match with Platter's description as Shakespeare ...
The histories—along with those of contemporary Renaissance playwrights—help define the genre of history plays. [1] The Shakespearean histories are biographies of English kings of the previous four centuries and include the standalones King John, Edward III and Henry VIII as well as a continuous sequence of eight plays.
Revenge tragedy caught their imagination and writers attempted plays of this genre with their own variations of dramaturgy. Shakespeare raised his revenge tragedy to a high intellectual and philosophical level by making Hamlet a virtuous, sensitive scholar. Cyril Tourneur exploited the morbid and melodramatic in The Atheists Tragedy (1611).
Coriolanus. John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus in "Coriolanus" by William Shakespeare, Thomas Lawrence (1798) Coriolanus ( / kɒriəˈleɪnəs / or /- ˈlɑː -/ [1]) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus.
Troy, Trojan War. Troilus and Cressida ( / ˈtrɔɪlʌs ... ˈkrɛsɪdə / or / ˈtroʊ.ɪlʌs /) [1] [2] is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1602. At Troy during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida begin a love affair. Cressida is forced to leave Troy to join her father in the Greek camp. Meanwhile, the Greeks endeavour to ...
