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Approaching Shakespeare

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The Syntax of Tragedies in Shakespeare

Jamison has two categories and he calls them syntactic on the one hand from syntax syntactic and semantic. Semantic ideas about genre are tonal so the semantics of tragedy would be serious lofty philosophical meaningful they're all the kind of tonal things we associate with tragedy not funny serious in Shakespeare's plays.

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