What is a Shakespearean tragedy? / Tom McAlindon -- The language of tragedy / Russ McDonald --Tragedy in Shakespeare's career / David Bevington --Shakespearean tragedy printed and performed / Michael Warren --Religion and Shakespearean tragedy / Huston Diehl --Tragedy and political authority / Michael Hattaway --Gender and family / Catherine Belsey --The tragic subject and its passions / Gail Kern Paster --Tragedies of revenge and ambition / Robert N. Watson --Shakespeare's tragedies of love / Catherine Bates. Shakespeare's classical tragedies / Coppeلإlia Kahn --The critical reception of Shakespeare's tragedies / R.A. Foakes - Antony and Cleopatra in the theatre / Barbara Hodgdon.
Acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, and critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative..
Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 - Tragedies - Handbooks, manuals, etc.