Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I

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 Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.

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• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 11 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4David Scott Kastan2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 23Martin Coyle3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47Katherine Rowe4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73Catherine Belsey5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Traged  95Philippa Berry6 Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108Sasha Roberts7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134Bernice W. Kliman8 Text and Tragedy l58Graham Holderness9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178Richard C. McCoy10 Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies 199Gordon Braden11 Tragedy and Geography 219Jerry Brotton12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 241Kenneth S. Rothwell13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262Mark Thornton Burnett14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284Ian Smith15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet 303Naomi Conn Liebler16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet 319Michael Neill17 Julius Caesar 339Rebecca W. Bushnell18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357Kim F. Hall19 King Lear 375Kiernan Ryan20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393Kathleen McLuskie21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 411Jyotsna G. Singh22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 430Hugh Grady23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452Cynthia MarshallIndex  473