International Journal of Language & Literature

Relations between Council and Catastrophe in Shakespearean Tragedy
Thiago Martins Prado

Abstract
In order to investigate possible regularities of dramatic effect in William Shakespeare's tragedies, the study maps the situations in which one character advises another in ten Shakespearean plays: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. The hypothesis guiding this investigation is that the advice functions as a foreshadowing of the scenes of catastrophe of the characters involved in the act of advising. Among the theoretical contributions to be used for the discussion are the research by Bradley (2009) and Smith (2014), among others.

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