The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

Herausgeber: Neill, Michael; Schalkwyk, David

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifty-four essays by scholars from all parts of the world. It offers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts, written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 992
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1792g
• ISBN-13: 9780198724193
• ISBN-10: 0198724195
• Artikelnr.: 47869869

Autorenporträt

Michael Neill is Professor in Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Issues of Death (1997) and Putting History to the Question (2000). He has edited Anthony and Cleopatra (1994) and Othello (2006) for the Oxford Shakespeare. David Schalkwyk is currently Academic Director of Global Shakespeare, a joint venture between Queen Mary and the University of Warwick. He was formerly Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. and editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly. Before that he was Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, where he held the positions of Head of Department and Deputy Dean in the faculty of the Humanities. His books include Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays (Cambridge, 2002), Literature and the Touch of the Real (Delaware, 2004), and Shakespeare, Love and Service (Cambridge, 2008). His most recent book is Hamlet's Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare, published in 2013 by the Arden Shakespeare. He has just completed a monograph on love in Shakespeare.

Inhaltsangabe

* I. Genre
* What is Shakespearean Tragedy?
* The Classical Inheritance
* The Medieval Inheritance
* The Romantic Inheritance
* Ethics and Shakespearean Tragedy
* Character in Shakespearean Tragedy
* Preposterous Nature
* Shakespearean Tragedy and the Language of Lament
* The Pity of It: Shakespearean Tragedy and Affect
* 'Do You See This?' The Politics of Attention in Shakespearean Tragedy
* Tragedy and Religion: Religion and Revenge in Titus Andronicus and
Hamlet
* Shakespeare's Anatomies of Death
* 'Minded Like the Weather': the Tragic Body and its Passions
* Shakespeare's Tragedy and English History
* Shakespeare's Tragedy and Roman History
* Tragedy and the Satiric Voice
* 'The action of my life': tragedy, tragicomedy, and Shakespeare's
mimetic experiments
* Queer Tragedy, or Two Meditations on Cause
* II. Textual Issues
* Authorial Revision in the Tragedies
* 1. Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy
* III. Reading the tragedies
* 'Romaine Tragedie': The Designs of Titus Andronicus
* Romeo and Juliet as Event
* Julius Caesar: Making History
* The Question of Hamlet
* Seeing Blackness, Reading Race in Othello
* King Lear and the Death of the World
* 'O horror! horror! horror!' Macbeth and the Gothic
* Antony and Cleopatra
* Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Language
* IV: Stage and Screen
* Early Modern Tragedy and Performance
* Performing Shakespearean Tragedy, 1660-1780
* Staging Shakespearean Tragedy: the Nineteenth Century
* Tragedy in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theatre Production:
Hamlet, Lear, and the Politics of Intimacy
* Ontological Shivers: The Cinematic Afterlives of Romeo and Juliet
* Hamlet: Tragedy and Film Adaptation
* Intermediated Bodies and Bodies of Media: Screen Othellos
* Screening the Tragedies King Lear
* Macbeth on Changing Screens
* The Roman Plays on Screen: Autonomy, Serialization, Conflation
* 'The Bowe of Ulysses': Reworking the Tragedies of Shakespeare
* Shakespeare's Tragedies on the Operatic Stage
* V. The Tragedies Worldwide
* i. European Responses
* The Tragedies in Italy
* The Tragedies in Germany
* French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy: Between Liberty And
Memory
* Eastern Europe
* In equal scale weighing delight and dole: Shakespearean Tragedy in
Russia
* ii. The Wider World
* Shakespearean Tragedy in the Nineteenth Century United States: the
case of Julius Caesar
* Unsettling the Bard: Australasia and the Pacific
* Shakespeare's Tragedies in Southern Africa
* In Blood Stepped in: Tragedy and the Modern Israelites
* Shakespeare's Tragedies in North Africa and the Arab World
* Shakespearean Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean
* Shakespearean Tragedy in India: politics of genre / or how newness
entered Indian literary culture
* 'It is the east': Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia