A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 1: The Tragedies

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s tragedies. Contains original essays on every Shakespearean tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. Includes thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare. Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars. Complements David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies. Content: Chapter 1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy (pages 5–22): David Scott Kastan Chapter 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries (pages 23–46): Martin Coyle Chapter 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions (pages 47–72): Katherine Rowe Chapter 5 The Divided Tragic Hero (pages 73–94): Catherine Belsey Chapter 5 Disjointed Times and Half?Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy (pages 95–108): Philippa Berry Chapter 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England (pages 108–133): Sasha Roberts Chapter 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History (pages 134–157): Bernice W. Kliman Chapter 8 Text and Tragedy (pages 158–177): Graham Holderness Chapter 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity (pages 178–198): Richard C. McCoy Chapter 10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies (pages 199–218): Gordon Braden Chapter 11 Tragedy and Geography (pages 219–240): Jerry Brotton Chapter 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times (pages 241–261): Kenneth S. Rothwell Chapter 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies (page 262): Mark Thornton Burnett Chapter 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge (pages 284–302): Ian Smith Chapter 15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet (pages 303–318): Naomi Conn Liebler Chapter 16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet (pages 319–338): Michael Neil Chapter 17 Julius Caesar (pages 339–356): Rebecca W. Bushnell Chapter 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness (pages 357–374): Kim F. Hall Chapter 19 King Lear (pages 375–392): Kiernan Ryan Chapter 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past (pages 393–410): Kathleen McLuskie Chapter 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below (pages 411–429): Jyotsna G. Singh Chapter 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art (pages 430–451): Hugh Grady Chapter 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure (pages 452–472): Cynthia Marshall The four-volume __Companion to Shakespeare's Works,__ compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s tragedies. * Contains original essays on every Shakespearean tragedy from __Titus Andronicus__ to __Coriolanus.__ * Includes thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare. * Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars. * Complements David Scott Kastan's __A Companion to Shakespeare__ (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context. * Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies. Content: Chapter 1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy (pages 5–22): David Scott KastanChapter 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries (pages 23–46): Martin CoyleChapter 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions (pages 47–72): Katherine RoweChapter 5 The Divided Tragic Hero (pages 73–94): Catherine BelseyChapter 5 Disjointed Times and Half?Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy (pages 95–108): Philippa BerryChapter 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England (pages 108–133): Sasha RobertsChapter 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History (pages 134–157): Bernice W. KlimanChapter 8 Text and Tragedy (pages 158–177): Graham HoldernessChapter 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity (pages 178–198): Richard C. McCoyChapter 10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies (pages 199–218): Gordon BradenChapter 11 Tragedy and Geography (pages 219–240): Jerry BrottonChapter 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times (pages 241–261): Kenneth S. RothwellChapter 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies (page 262): Mark Thornton BurnettChapter 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge (pages 284–302): Ian SmithChapter 15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet (pages 303–318): Naomi Conn LieblerChapter 16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet (pages 319–338): Michael NeilChapter 17 Julius Caesar (pages 339–356): Rebecca W. BushnellChapter 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness (pages 357–374): Kim F. HallChapter 19 King Lear (pages 375–392): Kiernan RyanChapter 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past (pages 393–410): Kathleen McLuskieChapter 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below (pages 411–429): Jyotsna G. SinghChapter 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art (pages 430–451): Hugh GradyChapter 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure (pages 452–472): Cynthia Marshall This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare. This text contains essays on every Shakespeare tragedy from 'Titus Andronicus' to 'Coriolanus', as well as 13 additional essays on such topics as his Roman tragedies, his tragedies on film, his tragedies of love, 'Hamlet' in performance and tragic emotion in Shakespeare It is upon the pillars of the great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth - that Shakespeare's reputation most securely rests, and indeed it is the tragic plays in general that seem most robustly to confirm Shakespeare's greatness.