A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I The Tragedies

by Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E.

• ISBN13: 9781405136051
• ISBN10: 1405136057
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997).

Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(3)
``A rarity most beloved'': Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy	4	(19)
David Scott Kastan
The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries	23	(24)
Martin Coyle
Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions	47	(26)
Katherine Rowe
The Divided Tragic Hero	73	(22)
Catherine Belsey
Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy	95	(13)
Philippa Berry
Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England	108	(26)
Sasha Roberts
Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History	134	(24)
Bernice W. Kliman
Text and Tragedy	158	(20)
Graham Holderness
Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity	178	(21)
Richard C. McCoy
Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies	199	(20)
Gordon Braden
Tragedy and Geography	219	(22)
Jerry Brotton
Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times	241	(21)
Kenneth S. Rothwell
Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies	262	(22)
Mark Thornton Burnett
Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge	284	(19)
Ian Smith
``There is no world without Verona walls'': The City in Romeo and Juliet	303	(16)
Naomi Conn Liebler
``He that thou knowest thine'': Friendship and Service in Hamlet	319	(20)
Michael Neill
Julius Caesar	339	(18)
Rebecca W. Bushnell
Othello and the Problem of Blackness	357	(18)
Kim F. Hall
King Lear	375	(18)
Kiernan Ryan
Macbeth, the Present, and the Past	393	(18)
Kathleen McLuskie
The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below	411	(19)
Jyotsna G. Singh
Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art	430	(22)
Hugh Grady
Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure	452	(21)
Cynthia Marshall
Index	473