The four tragedies William Shakespeare wrote in the first years of the seventeenth century are each so singular an achievment that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worships that this most uncanny of the world's great writers invariably inspires. No other literary texts have been more instrumental in deepening our knowledge of ourselves as individuals and as a civilization. Titles in this volume are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and MacBeth.
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