A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies

Michael Mangan

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction

Part One: Shakespeare's England
1. Religious and philosophical developments.
2. Government and authority.
3. Elizabethan and Jacobean society
4. `Words, words, words': Shakespeare's English.
5. Plays into print.

Part Two: Shakespeare and the theatre of his time
6. Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy.
7. Shakespeare's theatre
8. Plays and audiences

Part Three: Critical Analysis
9. Hamlet.
10. Othello.
11. King Lear.
12. Macbeth. Postscript: What lies beyond tragedy?

Part Four: Reference Section
Short biographies
Further reading
Appendix: The theatres of Shakespeare's London
Index