Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Guide to Criticism

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Emma Smith
Wiley, 2003 M09 26 - 378 pages
This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day.

  • Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies.
  • Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
  • Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
  • Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

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About the author (2003)

Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000), as well as two other edited volumes in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series: Shakespeare’s Histories (2004) and Shakespeare’s Comedies (2004).

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