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Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies Revisited

The Dramatist’s Manipulation of Response

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  1. E. A. J. Honigmann
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Shakespeare and the Study of Response

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    Pages 1-3

  3. Impressions of ‘Character’

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    Pages 4-15

  4. Response and Dramatic Perspective

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    Pages 16-29

  5. Sympathy for Brutus

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    Pages 30-53

  6. Hamlet as Observer and Consciousness

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    Pages 54-76

  7. Secret Motives in Othello

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    Pages 77-100

  8. Lear’s Mind

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    Pages 101-125

  9. Macbeth: the Murderer as Victim

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    Pages 126-149

  10. Antony versus Cleopatra

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    Pages 150-169

  11. The Clarity of Coriolanus

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    Pages 170-191

  12. Henry V: the Rabbit and the Duck

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    Pages 192-210

  13. The Charm of As You Like It

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    Pages 211-236

  14. The Study of the Audience and the Study of Response

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    Pages 237-246

  15. Conclusion

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    Pages 247-249

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 250-275
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About this book

This classic text, reprinted several times since its first publication in 1976, has been extensively revised in this new edition and includes new chapters on Henry V, As You Like It, and on 'the study of the audience and the study of response'. Both readers and actors/theatre-goers will find will find it opens up new ways of looking at the plays and at the mechanisms that underpin some of the most magical moments in Shakespeare's plays.

About the author

ERNST HONIGMANN taught English Literature at the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham), University of Glasgow, and (as Joseph Cowen Professor) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of many books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies Revisited

  • Book Subtitle: The Dramatist’s Manipulation of Response

  • Authors: E. A. J. Honigmann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503038

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: E. A. J. Honigmann 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99754-3Due: 17 June 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99582-2Published: 29 May 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50303-8Published: 17 June 2002

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: IX, 275

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Poetry and Poetics

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