Companion to Shakespeares Works volume 1 The tragedies

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. Notes on Contributors. Introduction. 1."A Rarity Most Beloved": Shakespearea s and the Idea of Tragedy: David Kastan. 2. The Tragedies Of Shakespearea s Contemporaries: Martin Coyle. 3. Shakespearean Tragedy And The History Of Emotion: Kathryn Rowe. 4. The Tragic Hero As Divided Subject: Catherine Belsey. 5. Disjointed Times And Half--Remembered Truths In Shakespearean Tragedy: Philippa Berry. 6. Shakespearea s Tragedies Of Love: Othello, Romeo, And Antony: Sasha Roberts. 7.Histories Of Heroism: Changing Conceptions Of Hamlet As Stage Hero: Bernice Kliman. 8. Multiple Text Tragedies And Why They Matter: Graham Holderness. 9. Shakespearean Tragedy And Religious Identity: Richard Mccoy. 10. Shakespearea s Roman Tragedies: Gordon Braden. 11. The Geographies Of Shakespearean Tragedy: Jerry Brotton. 12. Classic Film Versions Of Shakespearea s Tragedies: Polanskia s Macbeth. Oliviera s Hamlet And Othello, Zefferellia s Romeo And Juliet: Kenneth Rothwell. 13. Contemporary Film Versions Of Shakespearea s Tragedies: Luhrmanna s Romeo And Juliet, Taymorea s Titus, Branagha s Hamlet: Mark Burnett. 14. Titus: Ian Smith. 15. Romeo: Naomi Liebler. 16. Hamlet: Michael Neill. 17. Julius Caesar: Rebecca Bushnell. 18. Othello: Kim F Hall. 19. Lear: Kiernan Ryan. 20. Macbeth: Kate Mcluskie. 21. Antony And Cleopatra: Jyotsna Singh. 22. Timon: Hugh Grady. 23. Coriolanus: Cynthia Marshall. Index. Notes on Contributors 7 Introduction 11 1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 14 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 33 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 57 4 The Divided Tragic Hero 83 5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy 105 6 Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 118 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 144 8 Text and Tragedy 168 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 188 10 Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies 209 11 Tragedy and Geography 229 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 251 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 272 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 294 15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in 313 16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet 329 17 Julius Caesar 349 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 367 19 King Lear 385 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 403 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 421 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 440 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 462 Index 483 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. V. 1. The Tragedies -- V. 2. The Histories -- V. 3. The Comedies -- V. 4. Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays. Edited By Richard Dutton And Jean E. Howard. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. This text on Shakespeare's histories contains essays on every history play, as well as 14 additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period and Shakespeare's histories on film 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.