Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art , 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. After reconstructing tragic theory and practice as Shakespeare and his contemporaries knew them, Lewis considers in detail each of Shakespeare’s tragedies from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus . He argu