The Music of the Close: The Final Scenes of Shakespeare's TragediesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 15 jul 2014 - 240 pagina's In this book, Walter Foreman studies the closing scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies, considering the tragic structure of the plays and the shapes the tragic characters give their lives by the way they encounter death. Foreman sees in the variety of tragic endings of the plays evidence that Shakespeare consciously experimented with tragic forms, for when he repeated he also changed, and changed more than superficially. Further, Foreman believes that these varieties and extensions of dramatic form were fundamentally a way of experiencing a various, often mysterious world. Extending and exploring the possibilities of tragic form, the playwright created dramatic worlds that mirror the possibilities of our own. Among the tragedies, Foreman finds three—Hamlet, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra—that are more complex than the rest. He devotes the three final chapters of his book to the closing scenes of these plays and his readings of them are richly rewarding, giving new insights into Hamlet's acceptance of death, Lear's isolation in a moral storm, and Cleopatra's triumphant staging of her own death. |
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... Antony loses the battle in disgrace. Antony delivers a passionate speech, lamenting his poor strategy and advising his followers to flee as well. He offers his treasure to them as compensation. Cleopatra begs Antony's forgiveness for ...
... Antony's last efforts with his forces , uses the phrase , " Had brought them to their worke , " a possible reminiscence of Antony's “ I'll bring you to't " in IV . iv . 34 post . Further always remembering that I am not recording ...
... Antony's army than with Antony himself ; and it somewhat damages the artistic proportion of the whole . The thing would have been unmanageable in the play , it would have lessened the effect of the defeat at Actium , and it was ...
... Antony in her travels , she rushes off " like a market maid " to Rome . Here we reach the centre of the play . It is the fatal turning point in Antony's career . It is the dividing of the ways in Antony's life . And what is it that has ...
... Antony's last efforts with his forces , uses the phrase , " Had brought them to their worke , " a possible reminiscence of Antony's " I'll bring you to't " in IV . iv . 34 post . Further - always remembering that I am not recording ...
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