Books, Arts & Manners: Tragedy, Anyone?

King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, & Tragedy, by Stephen Booth (Yale, 183 pp., $16.95)

Is it still possible for a critic to enlarge our awe of Shakespeare? Yes: Stephen Booth did it a few years ago with his brilliant study of the sonnets, in which he showed how phantasmagorically evocative these neat 14-line packages contrive to be. Now he has done it again with a short book bearing the long title King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, & Tragedy.

JS

About the Author

Joseph Sobran

Featured Tags

King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, & Tragedy, by Stephen Booth (Yale, 183 pp., $16.95)

Is it still possible for a critic to enlarge our awe of Shakespeare? Yes: Stephen Booth did it a few years ago with his brilliant study of the sonnets, in which he showed how phantasmagorically evocative these neat 14-line packages contrive to be. Now he has done it again with a short book bearing the long title King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, & Tragedy.