{"product_id":"fools-of-time-9780802062154","title":"Fools of Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as \"being in time,\" in which death as \"the essential event that gives shape and form to life ... defines the individual, and marks him off from the continuity of life that flows indefinitely between the past and the future.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Dr. Frye's view, three general types can be distinguished in Shakespearean tragedy, the tragedy of order, the tragedy of passion, and the tragedy of isolation, in all of which a pattern of \"being in time\" shapes the action. In the first type, of which \u003cem\u003eJulius Caesar, Macbeth,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e are examples, a strong ruler is killed, replaced by a rebel-figure, and avenged by a nemesis-figure; in the second, represented by \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Cressida,\u003c\/em\u003e authority is split and the hero is destroyed by a conflict between social and personal loyalties; and in the third, \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768056086871,"sku":"9780802062154","price":31.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802062154.jpg?v=1758716099","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fools-of-time-9780802062154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}