Critics: Tragedy Flashcards
1
Q
Kastan
A
‘Tragedy for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering.’
2
Q
Nuttall
A
‘despise the pleasurable and to value the disturbing.’
‘an audience… were to delight in the fall of one greater than they.’
3
Q
Bradley
A
‘his fall produces a sense of contrast, of the powerlessness of man, and of the omnipotence - perhaps the caprice - of Fortune or Fate, which no tale of private life can possibly rival.’
4
Q
Mack
A
‘madness has a further dimension as insight’.
5
Q
John Wain
A
‘Othello is a tragedy of misunderstanding.’ (Among characters and self-understanding)
