Shakespeare's Tragic SequenceBarnes & Noble Books, 1979 - 207 pages The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare's tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to them. |
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