Shakespeare's tragic family, sacrificers and victims from Cain to Hamlet

The "tragic family", like its counter-part tragic hero, suffers from a fatal flaw--a pre-disposition toward violence. In Hamlet, the two tragic families inevitably collapse because they cannot resist their "inner violence", and thus, turn to sacrificial rituals in an effort to m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woolff, Nicola
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1713