Innocent Victims: Poetic Injustice in Shakespearean Tragedy
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 orginal contribution to the field of Shakespearean studies. The book's argument is that a full...
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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 orginal 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 heroesl 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, Ophelia, Desemona and Cordelia.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780485112955 (0485112957)
Publish date: November 5th 2001
Publisher: Continuum
Pages no: 149
Edition language: English
While I didn't fully agree with White's analysis of some of the plays (for instance, you could say that Cordelia has as much pride as her father), he does present some intersting details about the victims in Shakespeare's plays by pointing out traits that they all have in come and how pity could be ...
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