Literature · Drama & Theatre Literature
A topic within Drama & Theatre Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
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William Shakespeare
A prince who has every reason and every means to avenge his father delays past all sense, arguing that thought and self-consciousness, not lack of courage, are what stand between intention and action.
link checked 17 Sept 2026A. C. Bradley
Reads Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth as studies of character in which the tragic outcome follows necessarily from a flaw in an otherwise great nature, treating the plays as if their protagonists were real people whose inner lives could be reconstructed.
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