18 books like Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies

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Tragedy Clifford Leech · 1969 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares Tragedies, Tragedy, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Brian Vickers · 2002 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares Shakespeare, Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

Sophokles Sophocles · 1851 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation, Drama with this book.

Post-colonial Shakespeares Ania Loomba · 1998 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the extent to which our assumption about such key terms as 'colonization', 'race' and 'nation' derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what were established subsequently… Shares Shakespeare, Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism, Drama

Forster Malcolm Bradbury · 1966 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Critique et interprétation, Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism with this book.

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus Walter Hawkesworth · 1988 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General, Drama with this book.

George Bernard Shaw Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1909 · ★ 3.7 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him." -- G. K. C. Shares Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Plays of George Colman the Younger George Colman · 2019 · 796p · ≈ 26h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General, Drama with this book.

The comedy of errors Robert S. Miola · 1997 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Shares Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

Heracles Euripides · 1876 · ★ 3.9 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Tragedies, Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation, Drama with this book.

Euripides Erich Segal · 1968 · ★ 3.8 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M. W. Knox -- Watching the Trojan women / Eric A. Havelock -- Why the Trojan women? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Tragedy and… Shares Critique et interprétation, Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation

La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico García Lorca · 1973 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

Cha guan She Lao · 1980 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares Drama

S.J. Perelman

S.J. Perelman Steven H. Gale · 1985 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

The tragedies of Sophocles Sophocles · 1729 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley. Shares Tragedy, Drama

The plays of Euripides Euripides · 1602 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation, Drama with this book.

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1800 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated,… Shares Shakespeare, Drama

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