Shakespeare's Tragedies: What Makes Them Great (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities)

In a lively personal voice, the renowned teacher and scholar Robert N.Watson illuminates the majestic beauties and subtle insights of Shakespeare's greatest works.Shakespeare's Tragedies highlights the plays' evocations of human psychology, and their astonishingly prescient anticipations of modern crises and ideas.Building from a helpful introduction of each tragedy to fresh advanced interpretations, this book reveals what these famous plays can offer every person and generation that must confront both the world's most tragic aspects and their own flawed but wondrous humanity. Shakespeare's Tragedies explores - among other things - not just the dreamy romance, but also the lurking anxieties about sexual violence haunting Romeo and Juliet that Juliet must heroically overcome; and how it marries comedy to tragedy, showing love and death as inextricable from each other.It explains Hamlet's lasting worldwide fame, how that play speaks to our Information (and Disinformation) Age, and why th