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"Raises questions about whether the causes of suffering lie in human weakness, divine retribution, or arbitrary fate".

Kastan, Shakespearean Tragedy

Questions, human suffering

"Tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering".

Kastan, Shakespearean tragedy

suffering

"it is the emotional truth of the struggle rather than the metaphysical truth of the worldview that is at the centre of these plays."

Kastan, Shakespearean Tragedy

emotion, world, centre of plays