{"product_id":"9780691246697","title":"Shakespeare's Tragic Art","description":"Author: Rhodri Lewis\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691246697\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Tragic Art\u003c\/i\u003e, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it  of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and why they matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter reconstructing tragic theory and practice as Shakespeare and his contemporaries knew them, Lewis considers in detail each of Shakespeare's tragedies from \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e. He argues that these plays are a series of experiments whose greatness lies in their author's nerve-straining determination to represent the experience of living in a world that eludes rational analysis. They explore not just our inability to know ourselves as we would like to, but the compensatory and generally unacknowledged fictions to which we bind ourselves in our hunger for meaning  from the political, philosophical, social, and religious to the racial, sexual, personal, and familial. Lewis's Shakespeare not only creates tragedies that exceed those written before them. Through his art, he also affirms and invigorates the kinds of knowing that are available to intelligent animals like us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major reevaluation of Shakespeare's tragedies, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Tragic Art\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in Shakespeare, tragedy, or the capacity of literature to help us navigate the perplexities of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Lewis's unflinching, learned twenty-first-century account of Shakespearean tragedy has a clear eye for the plays' comfortlessness even as his analyses make them sing. Move aside, A. C. Bradley.\u0026amp;#x27;\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e Emma Smith, Hertford College, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Rhodri Lewis's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Tragic Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the best book on the tragedies since A. C. Bradley's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespearean Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e. Arguably it is better, and certainly more accessible and urgent. Sensible and sensitive, learned and almost compulsively readable, it shows us precisely why and how Shakespeare matters.\u0026amp;#x27;\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e David Scott Kastan, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845871124638,"sku":"ADS-9780691246697","price":69.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691246697.jpg?v=1781223510","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691246697","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}