Shakespearean Tragedy / Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet, for instance, is a pure tragedy, but it is an early work, and in some respects an immature one.

But Hegel's view of the tragic conflict is not only unfamiliar to English readers and difficult to expound shortly, but it had its origin in reflections on Greek tragedy and, as Hegel was well aware, applies only imperfectly to the works of Shakespeare