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Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.  \n1 A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu  \n2 Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker  \n3 A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan  \n4 A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter  \n5 A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan  \n6 A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown  \n7 A Companion to English Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley  \n8 A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway  \n9 A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns  \n10 A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts  \n11 A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne  \n12 A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen  \n13 A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco  \n14 A Companion to English Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur F. Kinney  \n15 A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Anthony H. Harrison  \n16 A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing  \nA Companion to Shakespeare’s Works  \n17 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume I: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Tragedies Jean E. Howard  \n18 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume II: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Histories Jean E. Howard  \n19 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume III: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Comedies Jean E. Howard  \n20 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume IV: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays Jean E. Howard  \nEditorial material and organization copyright © 2003 by  \nBlackwell Publishing Ltd  \n350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA  \n108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK  \n550 Swanston Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia  \nKurfürstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany  \nThe right of Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard to be identified as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs,  \nand Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the  \nprior permission of the publisher.  \nFirst published 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.  \nISBN 0-631-22632-X (hardback)  \nISBN 1-405-10730-8 (four-volume set)  \nA catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.  \nSet in 11 on 13 pt Garamond 3  \nby SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd. , Hong Kong  \nPrinted and bound in the United Kingdom  \nby MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall  \nFor further information on  \nBlackwell Publishing, visit our website:  \n[http://www.blackwellpublishing.com](http://www.blackwellpublishing.com)  \nContents  \nNotes on Contributors vii  \nIntroduction 1  \n1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4 David Scott Kastan  \n2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 23 Martin Coyle  \n3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47 Katherine Rowe  \n4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73 Catherine Belsey  \n5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean  \nTrag","cbCaigzhxFNj1tTl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigzhxFNj1tTl","pdf",2429587,501,"English","# Contents\n## Notes on Contributors\n## Introduction\n## A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume I: The Tragedies\n### “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy - David Scott Kastan\n### The Tragedies of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries - Martin Coyle\n### Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions - Katherine Rowe\n### The Divided Tragic Hero - Catherine Belsey\n### Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy - Philippa Berry\n### Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love - Sasha Roberts\n### Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling - Bernice W. Kliman\n### Text and Tragedy - Graham Holderness\n### Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity - Richard C. McCoy\n### Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies - Gordon Braden\n### Tragedy and Geography - Jerry Brotton\n### Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Tragedies - Kenneth S. Rothwell\n### Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies - Mark Thornton Burnett\n### Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge - Ian Smith\n### There is no world without Verona walls - Naomi Conn Liebler\n### He that thou knowest thine - Michael Neill\n### Julius Caesar - Rebecca W. Bushnell\n### Othello and the Problem of Blackness - Kim F. Hall\n### King Lear - Kiernan Ryan\n### Macbeth, the Present, and the Past - Kathleen McLuskie\n### The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra - Jyotsna G. Singh\n### Timon of Athens - Hugh Grady\n### Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure - Cynthia Marshall","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of Volume I in A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works?\",\"answer\":\"Volume I centers on Shakespeare’s tragedies through a set of scholarly studies that examine themes, contexts, and major tragic texts in English literary culture and history.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of topics are covered across the chapters?\",\"answer\":\"The chapters address ideas of tragedy, tragic emotions and heroes, readings of specific plays, performance history, textual questions, religious identity, geography, and film adaptations.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the volume support both beginning and advanced readers?\",\"answer\":\"It combines newly written surveys of key literary contexts with detailed approaches to canonical and post-canonical texts, offering orientation for beginners and current directions for undergraduates and new graduates.\"}]","A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works - Volume I - Tragedies | PDF",1789985389,772]