Shakespearean Tragedy

Brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. The collection provides both a guide and an explanation to the various ways in which contemporary criticism has determined our understanding of the tragedies, and the opportunity for assessing the wider issues such criticism raises. The book begins by considering the impact of social semiotics on approaches to the tragedies, before moving on to deal, in turn, with the various forms of Marxist criticism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Poststructuralism.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Semiotics; Chapter 3 Marxism and Materialism; Chapter 4 New Historicism; Chapter 5 Cultural Materialism; Chapter 6 Feminism; Chapter 7 Psychoanalytical Criticism; Chapter 8 Post-Structuralism and Materialism;