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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453558803321

Autore

White R. S. <1948->

Titolo

Innocent victims [[electronic resource] ] : poetic injustice in Shakespearean tragedy / / R.S. White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Athlone Press, 1986

ISBN

1-281-78347-1

9786611783471

0-567-61849-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

184

822.33

Soggetti

Victims in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to second edition; I: Fore Thoughts; II: Innocent Victims; III: Lavinia; IV: Lucrece; V: Children; VI: Ophelia; VII: Desdemona; VIII: Cordelia; IX: After Thoughts; Appendix: Critics and Victims; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a revised version of the book which was privately published by the author in 1982. At the time, the book was widely welcomed by Shakespearean scholars as a trenchant, scholarly and highly original contribution to the field of Shakespearean studies. The book's argument is that a full response to Shakespearean tragedy has to take account of the fate of the victims as well as of the tragic heroes and this thesis is illustrated and developed by a consideration of Lavinia, Lucrece and the children in Richard III, Macbeth and King John; and to the thee principal Shakespearean tragic victims,