چکیده:
Human understanding is subject to the passage of time; knowledge develops as
the minutes unfold. William Shakespeare is no exception to this rule. In the early
period of his career as a writer of tragic plays, Shakespeare did not have the
viewpoint toward tragedy and its constituent parts which he adopted later as his
abilities as a playwright manifestly developed. An early instance of
Shakespeare’s experimenting with the genre of tragedy is Romeo and Juliet, the
structural and ideological framework of which is going to be compared, in this
article, with the products of his more mature years, such as Hamlet and Othello,
in the attempt to make clear the modifications which Shakespeare the playwright
underwent in the course of his literary life. One aspect of this modification is the
change in the protagonist’s dynamism. As I have tried to show, although Romeo
and Juliet both show certain signs of development which separates them from
comic characters, they still lack the psychological depth which is witnessed in
Shakespeare’s late tragic heroes. Another aspect is the change of diction toward a
more ‘natural’ employment of language and rhetorical devices. And the last
aspect dealt with here is the shift in Shakespeare’s conception of what is tragic in
human. As we move toward the late tragedies, we are presented with more
complex and more contradictory accounts of certain universal issues, which are
shared by all the members of human society.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Structural and Ideological Differences in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and his Later Tragedies Ghiasuddin Alizadeh English Literature, PhD Candidate, Shahid Beheshti University Abstract Human understanding is subject to the passage of time; knowledge develops as the minutes unfold.
An early instance of Shakespeare’s experimenting with the genre of tragedy is Romeo and Juliet, the structural and ideological framework of which is going to be compared, in this article, with the products of his more mature years, such as Hamlet and Othello, in the attempt to make clear the modifications which Shakespeare the playwright underwent in the course of his literary life.
As I have tried to show, although Romeo and Juliet both show certain signs of development which separates them from comic characters, they still lack the psychological depth which is witnessed in Shakespeare’s late tragic heroes.
Keywords: Tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Character, Diction, Ideology, Structure, Othello, Hamlet Aristotle’s Poetics is "perhaps the single most important work in the history of dramatic criticism" (Hochman, 1984, p.
In fact, Romeo and Juliet was experimental in its subject matter too, which has led some critics to claim that, despite the tragic elements employed by the playwright, it is in reality not a tragedy but a romance.
As I have tried to show, although Romeo and Juliet both show certain sings of development which separates them from comic characters, they still lack the psychological depth which is witnessed in Shakespeare’s late tragic heroes."