| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 955 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks online |
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Oxford handbooks online.
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| Contents |
Part 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 in Shakespeare's Tragedies / 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 Kern 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 -- Part II: Textual Issues -- Authorial Revision in the Tragedies / Paul Werstine -- Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy / Michael Witmore, Jonathan Hope, and Michael Gleicher -- Part 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 C. 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 Fear / Andrew J. Power -- Antony and Cleopatra / Bernhard Klein -- Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Language / David Schalkwyk -- Part 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 Shakespeare's 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 and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin -- 'The Bowe of Ulysses': Reworking the Tragedies of Shakespeare / Peter Byrne -- Shakespeare's Tragedies on the Operatic Stage / William Germano -- Part V: The Tragedies Worldwide: (I) European Responses -- The Tragedies in Italy / Shaul Bassi -- The Tragedies in Germany / Andreas Höfele -- French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy: Between Liberty and Memory / Pascale Drouet and Nathalie Rivère de Carles -- Shakespearean Tragedy in Eastern Europe / Pavel Drábek -- Shakespearean Tragedy in Russia: In Equal Scale Weighing Delight and Dole / John Givens -- Part VI: The Tragedies Worldwide: (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 Modern Israelites / Avraham Oz -- Shakespeare's Tragedies in North Africa and the Arab World / Khalid Amine -- Shakespearean Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean / Alfredo Michel Modenessi and Margarida Gandara Rauen -- 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 / Alexa Huang |
| Summary |
This handbook brings together 54 essays by scholars from all parts of the world. It offers 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 |
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"The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of 54 essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. 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."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
Criticism and interpretation
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neill, Michael, 1942- editor.
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Schalkwyk, David, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191792168 |
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0191792160 |
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