Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear Macbeth

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvii
The Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy....Pages 1-30
Construction in Shakespeare’s Tragedies....Pages 31-63
Shakespeare’s Tragic Period — Hamlet....Pages 64-107
Hamlet....Pages 108-148
Othello....Pages 149-177
Othello....Pages 178-207
King Lear....Pages 208-241
King Lear....Pages 242-289
Macbeth....Pages 290-321
Macbeth....Pages 322-354
Events Before the Opening of the Action in Hamlet....Pages 355-357
Where was Hamlet at the Time of His Father’s Death?....Pages 358-362
Hamlet’s Age....Pages 363-365
‘My Tables — Meet It is I Set It Down’....Pages 366-369
The Ghost in the Cellarage....Pages 370-370
The Player’s Speech in Hamlet....Pages 371-378
Hamlet’s Apology to Laertes....Pages 379-381
The Exchange of Rapiers....Pages 382-383
The Duration of the Action in Othello....Pages 384-390
The ‘Additions’ to Othello in the First Folio. The Pontic Sea....Pages 391-394
Othello’s Courtship....Pages 395-396
Othello in the Temptation Scene....Pages 397-398
Questions as to Othello, Act IV, Scene I....Pages 399-400
Two Passages in the Last Scene of Othello....Pages 401-401
Othello on Desdemona’s Last Words....Pages 402-403
Did Emilia Suspect Iago?....Pages 404-405
Iago’s Suspicion Regarding Cassio and Emilia....Pages 406-406
Reminiscences of Othello in King Lear....Pages 407-408
King Lear and Timon of Athens....Pages 409-411
Did Shakespeare Shorten King Lear?....Pages 412-415
Movements of the Dramatis Personæ in Act II. of King Lear....Pages 416-418
Suspected Interpolations in King Lear....Pages 419-421
The Staging of the Scene of Lear’s Reunion with Cordelia....Pages 422-424
The Battle in King Lear....Pages 425-427
Some Difficult Passages in King Lear....Pages 428-436
Suspected Interpolations in Macbeth....Pages 437-438
Has Macbeth been Abridged?....Pages 439-441
The Date of Macbeth. Metrical Tests....Pages 442-453
When was the Murder of Duncan First Plotted?....Pages 454-458
Did Lady Macbeth Really Faint?....Pages 459-461
Duration of the Action in Macbeth. Macbeth’s Age. ‘He Has No Children.’....Pages 462-468
The Ghost of Banquo....Pages 469-470
Back Matter....Pages 471-476