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This Handbook Brings Together 54 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. What Is Shakespearean Tragedy? / Paul A. Kottman -- The Classical Inheritance / Richard Halpern -- The Medieval Inheritance / Rory Loughnane -- The Romantic Inheritance / Edward Pechter -- Ethics And Shakespearean Tragedy / Tzachi Zamir -- Character In Shakespearean Tragedy / Emma Smith -- Preposterous Nature In Shakespeare's Tragedies / Philip Armstrong -- Shakespearean Tragedy And The Language Of Lament / Lynne Magnusson -- The Pity Of It: Shakespearean Tragedy And Affect / David Hillman -- 'do You See This?' The Politics Of Attention In Shakespearean Tragedy / Steven Mullaney -- Tragedy And Religion / Peter Lake -- Shakespeare's Anatomies Of Death / Richard Sugg -- Minded Like The Weather / Gail Kern Paster -- Shakespeare's Tragedy And English History / Andrew Hadfield -- Shakespeare's Tragedy And Roman History / Tom Bishop -- Tragedy And The Satiric Voice / Hester Lees-jeffries -- 'the Action Of My Life' / Subha Mukherji -- Queer Tragedy, Or Two Meditations On Cause / Lee Edelman, Madhavi Menon -- Authorial Revision In The Tragedies / Paul Werstine -- Digital Approaches To The Language Of Shakespearean Tragedy / Michael Witmore, Jonathan Hope, Michael Gleicher -- 'romaine Tragedie' / Michael Neill -- Romeo And Juliet As Event / Crystal Bartolovich -- Julius Caesar / Emily C. Bartels -- The Question Of Hamlet / Catherine Belsey -- Seeing Blackness / Ian Smith -- King Lear And The Death Of The World / Leah Marcus -- O Horror! Horror! Horror! / Andrew J. Power -- Antony And Cleopatra / Bernhard Klein -- Coriolanus / David Schalkwyk -- Early Modern Tragedy And Performance / Tiffany Stern -- Performing Shakespearean Tragedy, 1660-1780 / Peter Holland -- Staging Shakespearean Tragedy / Russell Jackson