The Pictorial Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare edited by Charles Knight  Tragedies Vol. I
 
‘What a piece of work is, man,
'we cry,’
so much more beautiful
and so much more terrible than we knew.
Why should he be so if this beauty and greatness only torture itself away?
’Everywhere… we see power, intelligence, life, and glory,
which astound us and seem to call for our worship,
And everywhere we see them perishing,
devouring one another and destroying themselves…
as though they came into being for no end.
Excerpt from King Lear
 
The ultimate power in the tragic world is not adequately described as law or order which can seem to be just and benevolent-as, in that sense, a ‘moral order’: for, in that case, the spectacle of suffering and waste could not seem to us so fearful and mysterious as it does. And from the second, it follows that the ultimate power is not adequately described as fate, whether malicious and cruel or blind and indifferent to human happiness and goodness, for in that case, the spectacle would leave us desperate or rebellious. Yet one or other of these two ideas will be found to govern most accounts of Shakespeare’s tragic view of the world.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
This will make an ideal gift for the Shakespearian collector that you love.
 
Measures: 10 x 6.75 x 1.5
Brown cloth binding w/gold lettering in very good condition, pages, and illustration including tissue coverings are in excellent condition. The fly page has a crossed-out name.
 
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