Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the daw
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of 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 Shakespearean Traged 95
Philippa Berry
6 Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108
Sasha Roberts
7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134
Bernice W. Kliman
8 Text and Tragedy l58
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: A Mirror 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”: The City in Romeo and Juliet 303
Naomi Conn Liebler
16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service 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 from Below 411
Jyotsna G. Singh
22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 430
Hugh Grady
23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452
Cynthia Marshall
Index 473
