Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

List of contents

Preface to the second edition; 1. What is a Shakespearean tragedy? Colin Burrow; 2. The language of tragedy Russ McDonald; 3. Tragedy in Shakespeare's career David Bevington; 4. Shakespearean tragedy printed and performed Michael Warren; 5. Religion and Shakespearean tragedy Claire McEachern; 6. Tragedy and political authority Michael Hattaway; 7. Gender and family Catherine Belsey; 8. The tragic subject and its passions Gail Kern Paster; 9. Tragedies of revenge and ambition Robert N. Watson; 10. Shakespeare's tragedies of love Catherine Bates; 11. Shakespeare's classical tragedies Coppélia Kahn; 12. Why think about Shakespearean tragedy today? Paul A. Kottman; 13. Shakespeare's tragedies in performance Lucy Munro.

About the author

Claire McEachern is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612 (1996), co-editor (with Debora Shuger) of Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance (1997) and editor of the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing, as well as several other Shakespeare plays for various series.

Summary

This updated Companion has been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship. With an extensively overhauled bibliography, it also includes four new chapters by leading scholars, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Mceachern, Claire (University of California McEachern
• Assisted by: Claire Mceachern (Editor), Claire (University of California McEachern (Editor), McEachern Claire (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2013
• EAN: 9781107019775
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01977-5
• No. of pages: 321
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean