Project Gutenberg 2005-04-06 Public domain in the USA. 333 Johnson, Samuel 1709 1784 Sherbo, Arthur 1918 2010 Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Reading ease score: 69.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by David Starner, David King, and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies" by Samuel Johnson is a critical commentary on the tragedies of Shakespeare, written in the mid-20th century. This work provides in-depth analysis and notes on various plays, examining thematic elements, character motivations, and historical contexts of Shakespeare's tragedies. Readers interested in both Shakespearean literature and literary criticism will find this exploration insightful to understand the intricacies of these classic works. The opening of the volume features an introduction by Arthur Sherbo that outlines Samuel Johnson's complex emotional response to Shakespeare's tragedies. It highlights Johnson's personal experiences with the plays, delving into specific scenes that evoked strong feelings in him, such as the Ghost in "Hamlet" or the death of Cordelia in "King Lear." Sherbo discusses Johnson's mixture of emotional involvement with certain moments in Shakespeare's works while maintaining a dispassionate editorial perspective on others, setting the stage for a nuanced exploration of the tragedies analyzed throughout the volume. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation PR Text Browsing: Literature 609372 609277 2024-10-07T06:12:44.803333 2023-09-07T07:45:09.119582 text/html text/html 607048 2020-12-14T09:51:07 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 220323 2020-12-14T09:51:07 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 319928 2024-10-07T06:12:59.535757 application/epub+zip 332785 2024-10-07T06:12:49.085290 application/epub+zip 295520 2024-10-07T06:12:47.437329 application/epub+zip 688570 2024-10-07T06:13:06.111697 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 612179 2024-10-07T06:12:58.363797 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 525329 2022-09-07T22:29:58.006736 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 527149 527071 2024-10-07T06:12:41.104334 2023-09-07T07:45:05.907525 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 526998 2020-12-14T09:51:07 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 209921 2020-12-14T09:51:07 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 526991 2020-12-14T09:51:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 209881 2020-12-14T09:51:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21242 2024-10-07T06:13:06.258719 application/rdf+xml 21573 2024-10-07T06:12:48.060307 image/jpeg 4714 2024-10-07T06:12:47.749300 image/jpeg 314330 2024-10-07T06:12:44.855346 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia