“For us, and for our tragedy,
Here stooping to your clemency,
We beg your hearing patiently.”
- Hamlet, Act III, Scene ii -
Shakespeare wrote ten tragedies. Julius Caesar is sometimes classified as a History and it has been suggested by some that Romeo and Juliet is not true Aristotlean tragedy because the downfall of the protaganists is caused by accident rather than by flaws in their characters.
Click on a title for a scene by scene text of the First Folio edition of your favorite tragedy.
Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth
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