TRAGEDY CRITCS Flashcards
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Kastan
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- Shakespeare’s tragedies explore age-old questions about whether the causes of suffering lie in human weaknesses, divine retribution, or arbitrary fate- but don’t necessarily conclude with clear answers to these.
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Q
Nuttall
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- Early critical responses to tragedy considered audience pleasure in relation to the pain they were witnessing on stage.
- Contemporary reviewers more commonly praise the playright’s ability to disturb the emotions of the audience and render them uncomfortable.
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A.C Bradley
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- Shakespearean tragedy necessarily centres on a character of high rank and exceptional qualities who undergoes a reversal of fortune (peripeteia) that leads to his own death and to more general calamity.
