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What did A.C.Bradley say about the structure of this play? |
Commented that the play exemplifies a 'defective method' of linking a number of scenes, some very short, in which the dramatis personae are frequently changed. |
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What have later critics said about the structure of this play? |
View the fast-paced non-linear structure of the play as a unique solution to the problem of handling unwieldy historical information which involves a multitude of characters and incidents |
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What does Ernest Schanzer say about the structure of this play? |
He defends the structure of Antony and Cleopatra, examining the work is organized by a series of parallels and contrasts between settings, values and characters. |
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What does Schanzer also suggest about the structure of this play? |
He suggests that Shakespeare purposely used quickly changing scenes in order to maintain the audience's shifting attitudes towards on-stage events - The structural pattern is perfectly adjusted to the theme |
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What does Kanstan say about The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra? |
Sees Shakespeare's tragedies as intense treatments of old-age about whether the cause of suffering lie in human weakness or divine retribution. While Shakespeare didn't have a theory of tragedy , his powerful sense of it develops and deepens with every tragic play |
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What does Chaucer do? |
Chaucer's definitional reserve of the word tragedy, finds it the most powerful analogue in the agonizing silences of Shakespeare's tragedies. |
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What did Kenneth Muir's say about The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra? |
He said ' There is no such thing as Shakespearean tragedy: there is only Shakespearean Tragedies' - questioning how 'Shakespearean' modifies 'tragedy' either as an individual or group. If he says Shakespeare doesn't seem to have written tragedy driven by theoretical concept we would have to agree, but a compelling sense can be seen through the plays. |
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What is the 'Nietzschean Oxymoron'? |
It means 'Tragic joy' - collision between a terrible matter and a delighted respponse |
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What does A.C.Bradly say about the Shakespearean tragic hero? |
Argues Shakespearean tragedy necessarily centers on a character of high and exceptional qualities who undergoes a reversal of fortune that leads to his own death and to more general calamity. |
