Shakespeare's Tragedies

First published in 1951.

G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare''s tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the playwright''s conspicuous gift among his contemporaries was a sympathy for joy and sorrow, pity and terror, and right and wrong of his people. The plays covered are: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King...