This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two models of nature in Renaissance culture, one hierarchical, in which everything has an appointed place, and the other contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation. This latter model informs Shakespeare's tragedy.
| ISBN: | 9780521390415 |
| Publication date: | 14th February 1991 |
| Author: | T McAlindon |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 324 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights |
This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two models of nature in Renaissance culture, one hierarchical, in which everything has an appointed place, and the other contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation. This latter model informs Shakespeare's tragedy.
Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos features in the following genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos is available in Hardback
Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos was written by T McAlindon and published by Cambridge University Press
Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos has 324 pages