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Part I: Genre -- What Is Shakespearean Tragedy? / Paul A. Kottman -- The Classical Inheritance / Richard Halpern -- The Medieval Inheritance / Rory Loughnane -- The Romantic Inheritance / Edward Pechter -- Ethics and Shakespearean Tragedy / Tzachi Zamir -- Character in Shakespearean Tragedy / Emma Smith -- Preposterous Nature in Shakespeare's Tragedies / Philip Armstrong -- Shakespearean Tragedy and the Language of Lament / Lynne Magnusson -- The Pity of It: Shakespearean Tragedy and Affect / David Hillman -- 'Do You See This?' The Politics of Attention in Shakespearean Tragedy / Steven Mullaney -- Tragedy and Religion: Religion and Revenge in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet / Peter Lake -- Shakespeare's Anatomies of Death / Richard Sugg -- 'Minded Like the Weather': The Tragic Body and its Passions / Gail Kern Paster -- Shakespeare's Tragedy and English History / Andrew Hadfield -- Shakespeare's Tragedy and Roman History / Tom Bishop -- Tragedy and the Satiric Voice / Hester Lees-Jeffries -- 'The action of my life': Tragedy, Tragicomedy, and Shakespeare's Mimetic Experiments / Subha Mukherji -- Queer Tragedy, or Two Meditations on Cause / Lee Edelman and Madhavi Menon -- Part II: Textual Issues -- Authorial Revision in the Tragedies / Paul Werstine -- Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy / Michael Witmore, Jonathan Hope, and Michael Gleicher -- Part III: Reading the Tragedies -- 'Romaine Tragedie': The Designs of Titus Andronicus / Michael Neill -- Romeo and Juliet as Event / Crystal Bartolovich -- Julius Caesar: Making History / Emily C. Bartels -- The Question of Hamlet / Catherine Belsey -- Seeing Blackness: Reading Race in Othello / Ian Smith -- King Lear and the Death of the World / Leah S. Marcus -- 'O horror! horror! horror!' Macbeth and Fear / Andrew J. Power -- Antony and Cleopatra / Bernhard Klein -- Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Language / David Schalkwyk -- Part IV: Stage and Screen -- Early Modern Tragedy and Performance / Tiffany Stern -- Performing Shakespearean Tragedy, 1660-1780 / Peter Holland -- Staging Shakespearean Tragedy: The Nineteenth Century / Russell Jackson -- Tragedy in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theatre Production: Hamlet, Lear, and the Politics of Intimacy / Bridget Escolme -- Ontological Shivers: The Cinematic Afterlives of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Courtney Lehmann -- Hamlet: Tragedy and Film Adaptation / Douglas Lanier -- Intermediated Bodies and Bodies of Media: Screen Othellos / Sujata Iyengar -- Screening the Tragedies: King Lear / MacDonald P. Jackson -- Macbeth on Changing Screens / Katherine Rowe -- The Roman Plays on Screen: Autonomy, Serialization, Conflation / Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin -- 'The Bowe of Ulysses': Reworking the Tragedies of Shakespeare / Peter Byrne -- Shakespeare's Tragedies on the Operatic Stage / William Germano -- Part V: The Tragedies Worldwide: (I) European Responses -- The Tragedies in Italy / Shaul Bassi -- The Tragedies in Germany / Andreas Höfele -- French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy: Between Liberty and Memory / Pascale Drouet and Nathalie Rivère de Carles -- Shakespearean Tragedy in Eastern Europe / Pavel Drábek -- Shakespearean Tragedy in Russia: In Equal Scale Weighing Delight and Dole / John Givens -- Part VI: The Tragedies Worldwide: (II) The Wider World -- Shakespearean Tragedy in the Nineteenth-Century United States: The Case of Julius Caesar / Gay Smith -- Unsettling the Bard: Australasia and the Pacific / Mark Houlahan -- Shakespeare's Tragedies in Southern Africa / Colette Gordon, Daniel Roux, and David Schalkwyk -- In Blood Stepped in: Tragedy and the Modern Israelites / Avraham Oz -- Shakespeare's Tragedies in North Africa and the Arab World / Khalid Amine -- Shakespearean Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean / Alfredo Michel Modenessi and Margarida Gandara Rauen -- Shakespearean Tragedy in India: Politics of Genre: or How Newness Entered Indian Literary Culture / Poonam Trivedi -- 'It is the East': Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia / Alexa Huang. |