A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 1: The Tragedies

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s tragedies.

• Contains original essays on every Shakespearean tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus.
  
• Includes thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.
  
• Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars.
  
• Complements David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context.
  
• Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.

Content:
Chapter 1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy (pages 5–22): David Scott Kastan
Chapter 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries (pages 23–46): Martin Coyle
Chapter 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions (pages 47–72): Katherine Rowe
Chapter 5 The Divided Tragic Hero (pages 73–94): Catherine Belsey
Chapter 5 Disjointed Times and Half?Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy (pages 95–108): Philippa Berry
Chapter 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England (pages 108–133): Sasha Roberts
Chapter 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History (pages 134–157): Bernice W. Kliman
Chapter 8 Text and Tragedy (pages 158–177): Graham Holderness
Chapter 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity (pages 178–198): Richard C. McCoy
Chapter 10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies (pages 199–218): Gordon Braden
Chapter 11 Tragedy and Geography (pages 219–240): Jerry Brotton
Chapter 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times (pages 241–261): Kenneth S. Rothwell
Chapter 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies (page 262): Mark Thornton Burnett
Chapter 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge (pages 284–302): Ian Smith
Chapter 15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet (pages 303–318): Naomi Conn Liebler
Chapter 16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet (pages 319–338): Michael Neil
Chapter 17 Julius Caesar (pages 339–356): Rebecca W. Bushnell
Chapter 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness (pages 357–374): Kim F. Hall
Chapter 19 King Lear (pages 375–392): Kiernan Ryan
Chapter 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past (pages 393–410): Kathleen McLuskie
Chapter 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below (pages 411–429): Jyotsna G. Singh
Chapter 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art (pages 430–451): Hugh Grady
Chapter 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure (pages 452–472): Cynthia Marshall