Shakespeare: the tragedies; [electronic resource] a collection of critical essays.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface containing the grounds of criticism in tragedy (1679) / John Dryden -- Reflections on the Julius Caesar (1693) / Thomas Rymer -- Additional observations on Shakespeare's dramatic character of Hamlet in a letter to a friend (1784) / William Richardson -- Hamlet (ca. 1819) / S.T. Coleridge -- The substance of Shakespearean tragedy (1904) / A.C. Bradley -- Character and action: King Lear (1922) / Levin L. Schücking -- Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra (1931) / G. Wilson Knight -- The dramatic texture in Shakespeare (1935) / Elmer Edgar Stoll -- "Steep tragic contrast": Macbeth (1949) / J.I.M. Stewart -- Timon of Athens (1950) / Willard Farnham -- The development of imagery in Shakespeare's great tragedies (1951) / Wolfgang H. Clemen -- The new doubt (1951) / D.G. James -- Othello (1956) / D.A. Traversi -- Shakespeare's rituals and the opening of King Lear (1957-58) / William Frost -- Antony and Cleopatra (1960) / William Rosen -- Shakespeare's moral vision: Othello and Macbeth (1960) / Robert Ornstein -- Coriolanus (1961) / A.P. Rossiter -- The tragic spectacle in Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet (1965) / Nicholas Brooke.