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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy:
Imagining Alternatives in the Plays

Amir Khan

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Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a doctoral degree in English Literature

Department of English
Faculty of Arts
University of Ottawa

© Amir Khan, Ottawa, Canada 2013

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