Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies

Professor Harold Bloom (Yale University)

The Modern Scholar (TMS)

Seven files, mp3, 64 kbps, total length 8h 12m.

This is a re-upload of Horisarte's torrent, which had over 150 small files. I've merged them into seven files according to tragedy. I've also fixed some errors. 

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Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance. In Hamlet, Shakespeare created a character with the most brilliant mind in all of literature. And the character of Iago in Othello has been the very archetype of the villain ever since. King Lear presents audiences with unparalleled emotional and intellectual demands. Macbeth is a play of ruthless economy in which Shakespeare forces his audience into intimate sympathy with a man not far from being a mass murderer. Finally, in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare created something entirely new: a vast political and historical conspectus involving the whole world