The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

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.

Michael Neill is 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 a number of early modern plays, including Anthony and Cleopatra (1994) and Othello (2006) for the Oxford Shakespeare, and (most recently) The Renegado (2010) for Arden Early Modern Drama, as well as The Spanish Tragedy (2014) and The Duchess of Malfi (2015) for Norton Critical Editions.
David Schalkwyk is Professor in Shakespeare Studies at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Centre for Global Shakespeare. He was formerly Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and editor of 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.

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