The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifty-four 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
