The Heroic Idiom Of Shakespearean Tragedy
Author | James C. Bulman |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Release Date | 02 March 1985 |
Category | Literary Criticism |
Total Pages | 254 |
ISBN | 0874132711 |
Rating | 4/5 from 21 reviews |
Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories.