A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 1 "A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Ideaof 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 ShakespeareanTragedy 95 Philippa Berry 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo andJuliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England108 Sasha Roberts 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From thePerspective 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: AMirror 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": TheCity in Romeo and Juliet 303 Naomi Conn Liebler 16 "He that thou knowest thine": Friendship andService 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 fromBelow 411 Jyotsna G. Singh 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art430 Hugh Grady 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452 Cynthia Marshall Index 473