Shakespeare's Tragedies

Shakespeare''s Tragedies: Violation and Identity traces the linked themes of violation and identity through seven Shakespearean tragedies, beginning with the rape of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus. The implications of this event - its physical and moral shock, the way it puts Lavinia''s identity, and the whole notion of identity, into crisis - reverberate through Shakespeare''s later tragedies. Throu...