Sacred and Secular

This book started with a reading experience. Reading and re-reading Shakespeare’s tragedies, I sensed in sequent plays a pattern of related themes and situations dramatised in sharply different, even opposed, imaginative milieus. I looked for origins of this pattern, for the evolution of alternative ways of imagining, in the English histories. In analysing the nine plays in the tragic mode from Julius Caesar to Coriolanus , my aim was to consider how they appeared within the scheme of contrasted interrelationship, to bring out the distinctiveness of each by showing its likeness and unlikeness to its neighbouring tragedies. I am left with the question of where that brings me out. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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