Shakespeare's Tragedies

SUSAN ZIMMERMAN is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and Book Review Editor of Shakespeare Studies.

• AcknowledgementsGeneral Editors' PrefaceIntroduction; S. ZimmermanEscaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Coriolanus; J.AdelmanThe Name of the Rose in Romeo and Juliet; C.BelseySpheres of Influence: Cartography and the Gaze in Shakespeare's Roman Plays; P.Armstrong'Suche Strange Desygns': Madness, Subjectivity and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture; K.S.CoddonShakespeare Bewitched; S.Greenblatt'Fashion It Thus': Julius Ceasar and the Politics of Theatrical Representation; J.DrakakisPerspectives: Dover Cliff and the Condition of Representation; J.GoldbergFantasies of 'Race' and 'Gender': Africa, Othello and Bringing to Light; P. ParkerTransvestism and the 'Body Beneath': Speculating on the Boy Actor; P.Stallybrass'The Swallowing Womb': Consumed and Consuming Women in Titus Andronicus; M.Wynne-Davies'Funeral Bak'd Meats': Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet; M.D.BristolThe Ideology of Superfluous Things: King Lear as Period Piece; M.de GraziaFurther ReadingNotes on the ContributorsIndex.