The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
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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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
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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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191036156
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 08/18/2016
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 650
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

I. Genre
What is Shakespearean Tragedy?, Paul A. Kottman
The Classical Inheritance, Richard Halpern
The Medieval Inheritance, Rory Loughnane
The Romantic Inheritance, Edward Pechter
Ethics and Shakespearean Tragedy, Tzachi Zamir
Character in Shakespearean Tragedy, Emma Smith
Preposterous Nature, Philip Armstrong
Shakespearean Tragedy and the Language of Lament, Lynne Magnusson
The Pity of It: Shakespearean Tragedy and Affect, David Hillman
'Do You See This?' The Politics of Attention in Shakespearean Tragedy, Steven Mullaney
Tragedy and Religion: Religion and Revenge in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Peter Lake
Shakespeare's Anatomies of Death, Richard Sugg
'Minded Like the Weather': the Tragic Body and its Passions, Gail Paster
Shakespeare's Tragedy and English History, Andrew Hadfield
Shakespeare's Tragedy and Roman History, Tom Bishop
Tragedy and the Satiric Voice, Hester Lees-Jeffries
'The action of my life': tragedy, tragicomedy, and Shakespeare's mimetic experiments, Subha Mukherji
Queer Tragedy, or Two Meditations on Cause, Lee Edelman and Madhavi Menon
II. Textual Issues
Authorial Revision in the Tragedies, Paul Werstine
1. Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy, Michael Witmore, Jonathan Hope and Michael Gleicher
III. Reading the tragedies
'Romaine Tragedie': The Designs of Titus Andronicus, Michael Neill
Romeo and Juliet as Event, Crystal Bartolovich
Julius Caesar: Making History, Emily Bartels
The Question of Hamlet, Catherine Belsey
Seeing Blackness, Reading Race in Othello, Ian Smith
King Lear and the Death of the World, Leah S. Marcus
'O horror! horror! horror!' Macbeth and the Gothic, Andrew J. Power
Antony and Cleopatra, Bernhard Klein
Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Language, David Schalkwyk
IV: Stage and Screen
Early Modern Tragedy and Performance, Tiffany Stern
Performing Shakespearean Tragedy, 1660-1780, Peter Holland
Staging Shakespearean Tragedy: the Nineteenth Century, Russell Jackson
Tragedy in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theatre Production: Hamlet, Lear, and the Politics of Intimacy, Bridget Escolme
Ontological Shivers: The Cinematic Afterlives of Romeo and Juliet, Courtney Lehmann
Hamlet: Tragedy and Film Adaptation, Douglas Lanier
Intermediated Bodies and Bodies of Media: Screen Othellos, Sujata Iyengar
Screening the Tragedies King Lear, Macdonald P. Jackson
Macbeth on Changing Screens, Katherine Rowe
The Roman Plays on Screen: Autonomy, Serialization, Conflation, Sarah Hatchuel & Nathalie Vienne-Guerin
'The Bowe of Ulysses': Reworking the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Peter Byrne
Shakespeare's Tragedies on the Operatic Stage, William Germano
V. The Tragedies Worldwide
i. European Responses
The Tragedies in Italy, Shaul Bassi
The Tragedies in Germany, Andreas Hofele
French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy: Between Liberty And Memory, Pascale Drouet & Nathalie Rivere de Carles
Eastern Europe, Pavel Drabek
In equal scale weighing delight and dole: Shakespearean Tragedy in Russia, John Givens
ii. The Wider World
Shakespearean Tragedy in the Nineteenth Century United States: the case of Julius Caesar, Gay Smith
Unsettling the Bard: Australasia and the Pacific, Mark Houlahan
Shakespeare's Tragedies in Southern Africa, Colette Gordon, Daniel Roux and David Schalkwyk
In Blood Stepped in: Tragedy and the Modern Israelites, Araham Oz
Shakespeare's Tragedies in North Africa and the Arab World, Khalid Amine
Shakespearean Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean, Margarida Gandara Rauen & Alfredo Modenessi
Shakespearean Tragedy in India: politics of genre / or how newness entered Indian literary culture, Poonam Trivedi
'It is the east': Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia, Alex Huang
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