The Good that Lives After Them: A Pattern in Shakespeare's Tragedies

abdication actions ambitious androgyny Antony and Cleopatra apparitions asserts attribute audience Banquo's ghost behavior bond character Christian cited compositional pattern contrast Cordelia courage course crimes criticize dagger daughter death desire deuteragonist discussion divine grace dramatic ennui ethical evidence evil explicitly express fact father fear Gentleman Goneril and Regan grace grief Hamlet Hecuba implies interpretation Kent kill Duncan kind of manliness King Lear kingship Lady Macbeth Laertes later Lear and Macbeth Lear's least lines love test Macduff meaninglessness means merely moral murder nature never nothingness Ophelia Othello pangs of conscience passage perhaps person phrase play play's Polonius possess primary motives protagonist purpose reaction reason reference regicide relationship religious revenge Richard III Romeo and Juliet Rosenberg sacrifice says scene secondary motives seems sense Shakespeare significance sisters Siward soliloquy someone speaks speech suggests suicide things thou tragedy tragic victims virtue wants wife witches words