Dutton / Howard A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I

The Tragedies
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99727-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 504 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiledas a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot ofcurrent Shakespeare criticism.
* * Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and moreestablished scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada,France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the UnitedStates.
* Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems,using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performancestudies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
* Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namelythe histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the lateplays, problem plays and poems.
* Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in therelevant category, as well as more general essays looking atcritical issues and approaches more widely relevant to thegenre.
* Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at thedawning of the twenty-first century.
This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies containsoriginal essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus toCoriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on suchtopics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare'stragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love,Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion inShakespeare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutton, Richard

Howard, Jean E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
1 "A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Ideaof Tragedy 4
David Scott Kastan
2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries 23
Martin Coyle
3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47
Katherine Rowe
4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73
Catherine Belsey
5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in ShakespeareanTragedy 95
Philippa Berry
6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo andJuliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England108
Sasha Roberts
7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From thePerspective of Performance History 134
Bernice W. Kliman
8 Text and Tragedy 158
Graham Holderness
9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178
Richard C. McCoy
10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies 199
Gordon Braden
11 Tragedy and Geography 219
Jerry Brotton
12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: AMirror for the Times 241
Kenneth S. Rothwell
13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262
Mark Thornton Burnett
14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284
Ian Smith
15 "There is no world without Verona walls": TheCity in Romeo and Juliet 303
Naomi Conn Liebler
16 "He that thou knowest thine": Friendship andService in Hamlet 319
Michael Neill
17 Julius Caesar 339
Rebecca W. Bushnell
18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357
Kim F. Hall
19 King Lear 375
Kiernan Ryan
20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393
Kathleen McLuskie
21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View fromBelow 411
Jyotsna G. Singh
22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art430
Hugh Grady
23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452
Cynthia Marshall
Index 473

Über Autor(innen)

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of Englishat Columbia University and a past president of the ShakespeareAssociation of America. She is an editor of The NortonShakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage andSocial Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, withPhyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account ofShakespeare's English Histories (1997).
Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at OhioState University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: theRegulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) andLicensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early ModernEngland:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the PalgraveLiterary Lives series.