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
Tragedy 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 158
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
Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English
at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare
Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare,
and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in
Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of
Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English
Histories (1997).
Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Lancaster University, author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama (1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords (2000). He is editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series. From 2003, he will be Professor of English at Ohio State University.
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