A Companion to Shakespeare′s Works

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.

Notes on Contributors vii


Introduction 1


1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4
David Scott Kastan


2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 23
Martin Coyle


3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47
Katherine Rowe


4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73
Catherine Belsey


5 Disjointed Times and Half–Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy 95
Philippa Berry


6 Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108
Sasha Roberts


7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134
Bernice W. Kliman


8 Text and Tragedy 158
Graham Holderness


9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178
Richard C. McCoy


10 Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies 199
Gordon Braden


11 Tragedy and Geography 219
Jerry Brotton


12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 241
Kenneth S. Rothwell


13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262
Mark Thornton Burnett


14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284
Ian Smith


15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet 303
Naomi Conn Liebler


16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet 319
Michael Neill


17 Julius Caesar 339
Rebecca W. Bushnell


18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357
Kim F. Hall


19 King Lear 375
Kiernan Ryan


20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393
Kathleen McLuskie


21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 411
Jyotsna G. Singh


22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 430
Hugh Grady


23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452
Cynthia Marshall


Index 473