{"product_id":"a-companion-to-shakespeares-works-volume-i-the-tragedies-hardback-9780631226321","title":"A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I; The Tragedies (Hardback) 9780631226321","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Tragedies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Dutton (Edited by), R Dutton (Author), Jean E. Howard (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631226321, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 May 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 18.1 x 4.2 cm, 1.021 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis four-volume \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Shakespeare's Works,\u003c\/i\u003e compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Scott Kastan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 23\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartin Coyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatherine Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Belsey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy 95\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilippa Berry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSasha Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBernice W. Kliman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Text and Tragedy 158\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGraham Holderness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard C. McCoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies 199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGordon Braden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Tragedy and Geography 219\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJerry Brotton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 241\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKenneth S. Rothwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Thornton Burnett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIan Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet 303\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNaomi Conn Liebler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet 319\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Neill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Julius Caesar 339\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRebecca W. Bushnell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKim F. Hall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 King Lear 375\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKiernan Ryan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathleen McLuskie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 411\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJyotsna G. 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