Promised End
Endings in Shakespeare's Tragedies
Published on 13. October 2023
156 pages
978-1-5289-5711-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Promised End explores how the endings of Shakespeare's tragedies work - how, in effect, they resist conventional closure. It looks back from the endings of five plays - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear - to explore how their structures of action, imagery and the interaction of different genres - comedy, tragedy and romance - bring them to conclusions that are both inevitable and yet strangely incongruous, beyond explanation and moral understanding, almost too terrible to bear.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Introduction
- 1 Romeo and Juliet-Descrying the True Ground
- Civil blood
- I must love a loathed enemy
- How well my comfort is reviv'd
- Take all myself
- Love devouring death
- 2 Hamlet-Actions That a Man Might Play
- I know not seems
- A crafty madness
- In a fiction, in a dream of passion
- The play's the thing
- How all occasions do inform against me
- The readiness is all
- 3 Othello-What Shall Be Said to Thee?
- Villainy, villainy, villainy
- To be once in doubt / Is once to be resolv'd
- Belief of it oppresses me already
- That round unvarnish'd tale
- I saw Othello's visage in his mind
- A jealousy that judgement cannot cure
- He that was Othello
- 4 Macbeth-Signifying Nothing
- If it were done, when 'tis done
- Fair is foul and foul is fair
- Look how our partner's rapt
- A tale told by an idiot
- 5 King Lear-The Promised End
- Our darker purpose
- The night comes on
- The worst returns to laughter
- Fall and cease
