Ebook: Companion to Shakespeares Works [VOL 4 The Poems Problem Comedies Late Plays]

This Companion to Shakespeare's Works offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. articles are available in work types from the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Contained are individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.;Histories. Notes on Contributors to Histories Volume -- 1 The Writing of History in Shakespeares England / Ivo Kamps -- 2 Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History / Richard Helgerson -- 3 Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeares England / Cyndia Susan Clegg -- 4 Nation Formation and the English History Plays / Patricia A. Cahill -- 5 The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeares English Histories / Willy Maley -- 6 Theories of Kingship in Shakespeares England / William C. Carroll -- 7 To beguile the time, look like the time: Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeares Histories / Peter J. Smith -- 8 The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre -- / Paulina Kewes -- 9 Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeares Histories / James Holstun -- 10 Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeares History Plays / Rebecca Ann Bach -- 11 French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeares History Plays / Linda Gregerson -- 12 The First Tetralogy in Performance / Ric Knowles -- 13 The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation / Lois Potter -- 14 1 Henry VI / David Bevington -- 15 Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeares 2 Henry VI / Thomas Cartelli -- 16 Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI / Kathryn Schwarz -- 17 The power of hope -- An Early Modern Reader of Richard III / James Siemon -- 18 King John / Virginia Mason Vaughan -- 19 The Kings Melting Body: Richard II / Lisa Hopkins -- 20 Henry IV, Part 1 / James Knowles -- 21 Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History / Jonathan Crewe -- 22 Henry V / Andrew Hadfield.;Tragedies. -- Notes on Contributors to Tragedies Volume -- 1 "A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy / David Scott Kastan -- 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries / Martin Coyle -- 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions / Katherine Rowe -- 4 The Divided Tragic Hero / Catherine Belsey -- 5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy / Philippa Berry -- 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England / Sasha Roberts -- 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History / Bernice W. Kliman -- 8 Text and Tragedy / Graham Holderness -- 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity / Richard C. McCoy -- 10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies / Gordon Braden -- 11 Tragedy and Geography / Jerry Brotton -- 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times / Kenneth S. Rothwell -- 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies / Mark Thornton Burnett -- 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge / Ian Smith -- 15 "There is no world without Verona walls": The City in Romeo and Juliet / Naomi Conn Liebler -- 16 "He that thou knowest thine": Friendship and Service in Hamlet / Michael Neill -- 17 Julius Caesar / Rebecca W. Bushnell -- 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness / Kim F. Hall -- 19 King Lear / Kiernan Ryan -- 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past / Kathleen McLuskie -- 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below / Jyotsna G. Singh -- 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art / Hugh Grady -- 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure / Cynthia Marshall.