Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of 'Shakespearean' tragedy, and addresses questions of genre by examining the playwright's inheritance from the classical and medieval past. The second section is devoted to current textual issues, while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The book's final section expands readers' awareness of Shakespeare's global reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across Europe, the Americas, Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, India, and East Asia.

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Author:   Michael Neill (University of Kent / University of Auckland) ,  David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.660kg
ISBN:  

9780198820390

ISBN 10:   0198820399
Pages:   992
Publication Date:   08 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Genre 1: Paul A. Kottman: What is Shakespearean Tragedy? 2: Richard Halpern: The Classical Inheritance 3: Rory Loughnane: The Medieval Inheritance 4: Edward Pechter: The Romantic Inheritance 5: Tzachi Zamir: Ethics and Shakespearean Tragedy 6: Emma Smith: Character in Shakespearean Tragedy 7: Philip Armstrong: Preposterous Nature in Shakespeare's Tragedies 8: Lynne Magnusson: Shakespearean Tragedy and the Language of Lament 9: David Hillman: The Pity of It: Shakespearean Tragedy and Affect 10: Steven Mullaney: 'Do You See This?' The Politics of Attention in Shakespearean Tragedy 11: Peter Lake: Tragedy and Religion: Religion and Revenge in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet 12: Richard Sugg: Shakespeare's Anatomies of Death 13: Gail Kern Paster: 'Minded Like the Weather': The Tragic Body and its Passions 14: Andrew Hadfield: Shakespeare's Tragedy and English History 15: Tom Bishop: Shakespeare's Tragedy and Roman History 16: Hester Lees-Jeffries: Tragedy and the Satiric Voice 17: Subha Mukherji: 'The action of my life': Tragedy, Tragicomedy, and Shakespeare's Mimetic Experiments 18: Lee Edelman and Madhavi Menon: Queer Tragedy, or Two Meditations on Cause Part II: Textual Issues 19: Paul Werstine: Authorial Revision in the Tragedies 20: Michael Witmore, Jonathan Hope and Michael Gleicher: Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy Pert III: Reading the Tragedies 21: Michael Neill: 'Romaine Tragedie': The Designs of Titus Andronicus 22: Crystal Bartolovich: Romeo and Juliet as Event 23: Emily C. Bartels: Julius Caesar: Making History 24: Catherine Belsey: The Question of Hamlet 25: Ian Smith: Seeing Blackness, Reading Race in Othello 26: Leah S. Marcus: King Lear and the Death of the World 27: Andrew J. Power: 'O horror! horror! horror!' Macbeth and Fear 28: Bernhard Klein: Antony and Cleopatra 29: David Schalkwyk: Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Language Part IV: Stage and Screen 30: Tiffany Stern: Early Modern Tragedy and Performance 31: Peter Holland: Performing Shakespearean Tragedy, 1660-1780 32: Russell Jackson: Staging Shakespearean Tragedy: The Nineteenth Century 33: Bridget Escolme: Tragedy in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theatre Production: Hamlet, Lear, and the Politics of Intimacy 34: Courtney Lehmann: Ontological Shivers: The Cinematic Afterlives of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 35: Douglas Lanier: Hamlet: Tragedy and Film Adaptation 36: Sujata Iyengar: Intermediated Bodies and Bodies of Media: Screen Othellos 37: Macdonald P. Jackson: Screening the Tragedies King Lear 38: Katherine Rowe: Macbeth on Changing Screens 39: Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin: The Roman Plays on Screen: Autonomy, Serialization, Conflation 40: Peter Byrne: 'The Bowe of Ulysses': Reworking the Tragedies of Shakespeare 41: William Germano: Shakespeare's Tragedies on the Operatic Stage Part V: The Tragedies Worldwide: (I) European Responses 42: Shaul Bassi: The Tragedies in Italy 43: Andreas Höfele: The Tragedies in Germany 44: Pascale Drouet and Nathalie Rivère de Carles: French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy: Between Liberty And Memory 45: Pavel Drábek: Shakesperean Tragedy in Eastern Europe 46: John Givens: Shakespearean Tragedy in Russia: In Equal Scale Weighing Delight and Dole (II) The Wider World 47: Gay Smith: Shakespearean Tragedy in the Nineteenth-Century United States: The Case of Julius Caesar 48: Mark Houlahan: Unsettling the Bard: Australasia and the Pacific 49: Colette Gordon, Daniel Roux and David Schalkwyk: Shakespeare's Tragedies in Southern Africa 50: Araham Oz: In Blood Stepped in: Tragedy and the Modern Israelites 51: Khalid Amine: Shakespeare's Tragedies in North Africa and the Arab World 52: Alfredo Michel Modenessi and Margarida Gandara Rauen: Shakespearean Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean 53: Poonam Trivedi: Shakespearean Tragedy in India: Politics of Genre - or How Newness Entered Indian Literary Culture 54: Alexa Huang: 'It is the East': Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia

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an enormous volume ... What I particularly appreciate about this collection is the editors' commitment to accommodating a range of approaches to tragedy. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * A major collection of essays on Shakespearean tragedy * Vanessa Lim, The English Association *

an enormous volume ... What I particularly appreciate about this collection is the editors' commitment to accommodating a range of approaches to tragedy. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *

Author Information

Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Issues of Death (1997) and Putting History to the Question (2000). He has edited a number of early modern plays, including Anthony and Cleopatra (1994) and Othello (2006) for the Oxford Shakespeare, and (most recently) The Renegado (2010) for Arden Early Modern Drama, as well as The Spanish Tragedy (2014) and The Duchess of Malfi (2015) for Norton Critical Editions. David Schalkwyk is Professor in Shakespeare Studies at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Centre for Global Shakespeare. He was formerly Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and editor of Shakespeare Quarterly. Before that he was Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, where he held the positions of Head of Department and Deputy Dean in the faculty of the Humanities. His books include Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays (Cambridge, 2002), Literature and the Touch of the Real (Delaware, 2004), and Shakespeare, Love and Service (Cambridge, 2008). His most recent book is Hamlet's Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare, published in 2013 by the Arden Shakespeare. He has just completed a monograph on love in Shakespeare.

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