Revenge tragedy and identity - 16745683.pdf
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Contrary to the Aristotelian concept of tragedy however, Lever points out that the protagonists in Jacobean tragedy meet with their downfall not through an inherent flaw in character (hamartia or error of judgement) but because of the world they inhabit it has to be pointed out that to some extent,
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- Contrary to the Aristotelian concept of tragedy however, Lever points out that the protagonists in Jacobean tragedy meet with their downfall not through an inherent flaw in character (hamartia or error of judgement) but because of the world they inhabit
- it has to be pointed out that to some extent, the circumstances in these plays are as they are because of the individual characters. We might speculate that the tragedy of Hamlet would have taken a different turn if the protagonist had been, say, Othello.
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