The Promised End explores how the endings of Shakespeare's tragedies work - how, in effect, they resist conventional closure. It looks back from the endings of five plays - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear - to explore how their structures of action, imagery and the interaction of different genres - comedy, tragedy and romance - bring them to conclusions that are both inevitable and yet strangely incongruous, beyond explanation and moral understanding, almost too terrible to bear.
| ISBN: | 9781528954365 |
| Publication date: | 13th October 2023 |
| Author: | Peter Mercer |
| Publisher: | Austin Macauley Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 156 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights |