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Hamlet and The Dervish and Death in the context of the revenge tragedy [PDF]
Baština, 2023 This paper tackles researching the tragedy of revenge features in Shakespeare's play Hamlet and Death and the dervish novel by Meša Selimović. This paper aims to demonstrate why the protagonists are (not) the heroes of the revenge tragedy.
Terzić Marija S.
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Seeking Vengeance: Revenge Tragedy, Coherence and Scepticism from Sophocles to Shakespeare
Forum, 2011 Literary representations of revenge frequently encourage us to question the motivations behind such an impulse towards symmetry and coherence, as well as the outcomes of such a quest. In this sense, such literary representations relate closely to tragedy
Fionnuala ONeill
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On the Tragedy of Cao Yu’s Yuanye [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 In the realm of aesthetics, tragedy is known as “the highest stage and crown”, and its artistry is difficult to describe in simple words, as it mostly touches our senses and reveals the supreme value of beauty.
Liu Yinan
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Lea, 2022 The aim of this paper is to examine the features of Hamlet that allow for a new understanding of the play through gendered mimesis. Long discussed as a revenge tragedy and as an exemplary model of mimes, Hamlet is in itself a deliberate and self-aware ...
Emma de Beus
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MEASURE AND EXCESS: AHMED NURUDDIN – TRANSFORMING APOLLO INTO DIONYSUS
Filolog, 2023 This paper deals with Apollo and Dyonisian elements in dervish Ahmed Nuruddin's characterisation. This paper analyses the dervish Ahmed Nuruddin in light of Nietzche's understanding of Apollo and Dionysus deities in terms of their divine roots ...
Marija Terzić
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Fafnir, 2022 Brian Attebery writes in Strategies of Fantasy (1992) about reading fantasy as a mode rather than a genre. Following his lead, I look at Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) as a revenge tragedy in the fantastic mode.
Veera Mäkelä
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La Tragédie de l’athée de Cyril Tourneur : une vanité dramatique ?
Etudes Epistémè, 2012 Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy : dramatic vanitas ? In seventeenth century Europe a macabre atmosphere permeated everyday life, and more particularly the arts.
Elodie Likhtart
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A Comparative Study of Freydūn in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and Shakespeare’s King Lear with Mythological Approach [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2022 Introduction Although the epic of Freydūn in Shahnameh and the tragedy of King Lear are created in different time and location, they have remarkable and significant similarities that they could be compared.
neda akhavan aghdam
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“Shakespeare’s Plausible Community: The First Act of Titus Andronicus and its Kydian Precedent”
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2009 This article re-examines the relationship between Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. In the past decades the original credit of these two revenge plays of the 1590s has been restored. However, their parallel rediscovery
Jordi Coral Escolà
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