The Promised End

Download or read book The Promised End written by Peter Mercer and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.