Tragedy Flashcards
1
Q
‘Ending was unendurable’
A
Dr Johnson
2
Q
‘The fall from prosperity to wretchedness’
A
Kastan
3
Q
‘The tragedy doesn’t involve the idea of the hero’s learning through suffering’
A
FR Leavis
4
Q
‘I have never read a more terrible exposure of human weakness…than the last great speech of Othello’
A
TS Eliot
5
Q
‘Intellectual activity’ of Shakespeare’s criminal characters
A
Johnson
6
Q
‘Intellectual activity which prompts them to overleap those moral fences’
A
Charles Lamb
