Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Shakespeare tragedy
- Tragedy plays
- Macbeth
- Othello
- Cymbeline
- King Lear
- Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet
- Titus Andronicus
- Timon of Athens
- Troilus and Cressida
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Conventions
- Fatal flaws
- Shakespeare’s tragic heroes are
all fundamentally flawed. It is this
weakness that ultimately leads to
their downfall.
- The bigger they are, the harder they fall
- The Shakespeare tragedies often focus
on the fall of a nobleman. By presenting
the audience with a man with excessive
wealth or power, his eventual downfall
fall is all the more tragic.
- External pressures
- Shakespeare’s tragic heroes often fall
victim to external pressures. Fate, evil
spirits and manipulative characters all
play a hand in the hero’s downfall.
- Death
- There is a lot of death in Tragedies
- Confusion
- Audience knows more than charecters