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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Shakespearian Tragedy by H. B. Charlton
H. B. Charlton was Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the years 1946-1947. In this volume on Shakespeares tragedies, originally published in 1948, he opposes those critics who focus solely on Shakespeares words and metaphors. For Charlton, these moderns missed the greatest aspect of Shakespeare: his mastery of stagecraft. This book thus considers Shakespeares tragedies specifically as plays, written for performance and for an audience. Charlton also engages with the humanist elements, arguing that Shakespeares dramas are chiefly explorations of man and morality, rather than of religion or metaphysics. Charltons work is an in-depth analysis of Shakespeares tragedies, complete with an introduction that gives a significant insight into the fresh ways of reading Shakespeare that emerged during the 1940s. This text will primarily be of use to scholars of Shakespearean tragedy, but will also intrigue anyone with an interest in the changing reception of Shakespeares works.show more