A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volume I, (Vol. 1 of 4), The Tragedies (SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM, PLAYS)

Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. New. 2003. Hardcover. 063122632X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- This is one volume of a four volume set. All four volumes available as a set. AUTHORS + DESCRIPTION: Compiled by Dutton (English, Ohio State Univ. ; editor, "Palgrave Literary Lives" series) and Howard (English, Columbia Univ. ; editor, The Norton Shakespeare) , this four-volume set offers a comprehensive view of current Shakespeare criticism, concentrating on ongoing critical research on Shakespeare's works. It is meant to complement the publisher's Companion to Shakespeare, which focuses on Shakespeare as an author.... The resulting multifaceted work provides a stimulating matrix for future critical research. THE PRESENT VOLUME, Vol. 1: "The Tragedies" contains an essay on each tragedy and 13 additional essays on topics such as the Roman tragedies, film versions of the tragedies, and the tragic hero. Vol. 2: "The Histories" contains an essay on each history play and 14 additional essays on topics such as riot and rebellion, censorship in the histories, and Shakespeare's portrayal of men and women. Vol. 3: "The Comedies" contains one essay each on most of the comedies and 12 essays discussing subjects such as Shakespeare's use of English stage comedy traditions, social relationships in comic households, and cross-dressing. Vol. 4: "The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays" contains essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Sonnets, and another 11 essays on topics such as place and space in the late plays, generic classification of the late plays, and scatology and satire. Each essay is enriched with notes and ample bibliographies, and indexes are provided for each volume. The intended audience of scholars and graduate students will be well served by this work. -Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ. , Zanesville (Library Journal) -- TABLE OF CONTENTS, VOL. 1: Notes on Contributors vii; Introduction 1; 1 "A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4; 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries 23; 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47; 4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73; 5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy 95; 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108; 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134; 8 Text and Tragedy 158; 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178; 10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies 199; 11 Tragedy and Geography 219; 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 241; 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262; 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284; 15 "There is no world without Verona walls": The City in Romeo and Juliet 303; 16 "He that thou knowest thine": Friendship and Service in Hamlet 319; 17 Julius Caesar 339; 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357; 19 King Lear 375; 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393; 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 411; 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 430; 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452; Index. -- with a bonus offer-- .