Shakespeare's Tragedies

by Smith, Emma

• ISBN13: 9780631220091
• ISBN10: 0631220097
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies. Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions. Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context. Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

Author Biography

Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000), as well as two other edited volumes in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series: Shakespeare’s Histories (2004) and Shakespeare’s Comedies (2004).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(2)
Part I: Criticism 1590-1904	3	(48)
1 Before Bradley: Criticism 1590-1904	5	(46)
Part II: Twentieth-century Criticism	51	(313)
2 Genre: An Overview	53	(7)
3 Genre: Critical Extracts	60	(35)
King Lear and Essentialist Humanism	60	(13)
Jonathan Dolkmore
Coriolanus and Interpretations of Politics	73	(31)
Stanley Cavell
4 Character: An Overview	95	(9)
5 Character: Critical Extracts	104	(37)
The Resources of Characterization in Othello	104	(18)
Peter Holland
The Woman in Hamlet: An Interpersonal View	122	(27)
David Leverent
6 Language: An Overview	141	(8)
7 Language: Critical Extracts	149	(36)
Antony and Cleopatra	149	(12)
Frank Kermode
Imperfect Speakers	161	(31)
Malcolm Evans
8 Gender and Sexuality: An Overview	185	(7)
9 Gender and Sexuality: Critical Extracts	192	(49)
The Daughter's Seduction in Titus Andronicus	192	(27)
Coppélia Kahn
Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello	219	(29)
Karen Newman
10 History and Politics: An Overview	241	(7)
11 History and Politics: Critical Extracts	248	(32)
Macbeth and the 'Name of King'	248	(19)
David Scott Kastan
'Is This a Holiday?' Shakespeare's Roman Carnival	267	(22)
Richard Wilson
12 Texts: An Overview	280	(9)
13 Texts: Critical Extracts	289	(39)
Quarto and Folio King Lear	289	(13)
Michael Warren
Bad Taste and Bad Hamlet	302	(35)
Leah Marcus
14 Performance: An Overview	328	(9)
15 Performance: Critical Extracts	337	(27)
Titus Andronicus	337	(12)
Brian Cox
Baz Luhrmann's Millennial Shakespeare	349	(15)
James N. Loehlin
Index	364