Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author: (English) Shakespeare
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Shakespeare was a great playwright and an outstanding representative of humanism during the European Renaissance. He created a wealth of works in his lifetime, with 37 of his poems and plays, 154 sonnets, and two long poems being only a part of them. The adaptations in this book are based on four of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Most of Shakespeare's tragedies were written in his later years, when the light-hearted and romantic tone of his early comedies had faded. By then, he had gained a deeper understanding of real life, and the political instability, social conflicts, and other issues of the time were reflected sharply and profoundly in his tragedies.