Politics and Romance in Shakespeare's Four Great Tragedies. (Record no. 126216)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781443893329 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781443851855 |
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| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Classification number | PR3592.P64.U866 2017eb |
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| Classification number | 822.33 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Usongo, Kenneth. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Politics and Romance in Shakespeare's Four Great Tragedies. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Newcastle-upon-Tyne : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Cambridge Scholars Publishing, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2017. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (155 pages) |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Hamlet -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Othello -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Hamlet -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Othello -- Chapter Five -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This study of the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeare's tragic characters - including Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Iago, among others - discusses the overblown ambition of these characters as they embrace cunning and evil in order to acquire power and romance. The excessive ambition shown by these characters fuels action in the plays and significantly contributes to their downfall. In other words, the book interrogates, in a pluralist critical frame, the forces behind the quest for power and romance by Shakespeare's protagonists, and explores how these forces propel the demise or fall of the heroes and heroines. While Edmund in King Lear, for example, is analysed as a crafty villain who exploits any opportunity to politically aggrandise himself, Claudius in Hamlet is portrayed as a diabolical schemer who acts mostly independently in his bid to secure the Danish throne. On the other hand, Macbeth's killing of Duncan is considerably invigorated by the ambition of Lady Macbeth to become queen and the prophecy of the witches that Macbeth shall be king. However, Iago is seen to display the scheming and ruthlessness of a traditional stage villain in his mission to unseat Cassio and overthrow Othello. The study contends that most of the politically and romantically driven characters of Shakespeare in the Four Great Tragedies are avaricious, artful and callous. As a result, the actions of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Claudius, Edmund, Iago, for instance, are activated by their excessive political and romantic cravings, which subvert the norms of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. In depicting these characters, Shakespeare decries unorthodox methods of realising one's dreams, and demonstrates attempts to challenge Elizabethan and Jacobean orthodoxy. |
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| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century. |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Usongo, Kenneth |
| Title | Politics and Romance in Shakespeare's Four Great Tragedies |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,c2017 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781443851855 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4858013">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4858013</a> |
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