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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of
fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the
world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the
field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together
these essays offer readers 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. The collection is organised in five sections.
The substantial opening section introduces the plays by placing
them in a variety of illuminating contexts: as well looking at ways
in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of
'Shakespearean' tragedy, it addresses questions of genre by
examining the playwright's inheritance from the classical and
medieval past, by considering tragedy's relationship to other
genres (including history plays, tragicomedy, and satiric drama),
and by showing how Shakespeare's tragedies respond to the pressures
of early modern politics, religion, and ideas about humanity and
the natural world. The second section is devoted to current textual
issues; while the third offers new critical readings of each of the
tragedies, from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. This is set beside
a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen
productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as
well as with the extraordinary diversity of twentieth and
twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The
thirteen essays of the book's final section seek to expand readers'
awareness of Shakespeare's global reach, tracing histories of
criticism and performance across Europe, the Americas, Australasia,
the Middle East, Africa, India, and East Asia. Offering the richest
and most diverse collection of approaches to Shakespearean tragedy
currently available, the Handbook will be an indispensable resource
for students both undergraduate and graduate levels, while the
lively and provocative character of its essays make will it
required reading for teachers of Shakespeare everywhere.
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