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Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) was an esteemed performer of Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate.
The script and text of many of William Shakespeare's plays are extremely long. To reduce the time to load the script of the play, and for ease in accessing specific sections of the script, we have separated the text and script into five the Acts.
Othello. "Othello and Desdemona in Venice" by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) Othello ( / ɒˈθɛloʊ /; full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603. The story revolves around two characters, Othello and Iago . Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a ...
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The plays grouped as Shakespeare tragedies follow the Aristotelian model of a noble, flawed protagonist who makes a mistake and suffers a fall from his position, before the normal order is somehow resumed. List of Shakespeare Tragedy Plays. Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear; Macbeth; Othello; Romeo & Juliet; Titus Andronicus
When we use the word tragedy to describe a Shakespearean play, we are referring foremost to its designation in the First Folio, which divided Shakespeare’s body of work into three genres: tragedy, comedy, and history.
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May 28, 2006 · Summary. ‘Double, double toil and trouble . . .’. An eminent Shakespearean scholar famously remarked that there is no such thing as Shakespearean Tragedy: there are only Shakespearean tragedies. Attempts (he added) to find a formula which fits every one of Shakespeare's tragedies and distinguishes them collectively from those of other ...
