About
- 1.Defining Tragedy
- 2.Shakespearean Tragedy in Context
- 3.Hamlet I — "Stand and Unfold Yourself"
- 4.Hamlet II — The Performance of Revenge
- 5.Hamlet III — Difficult Women
- 6.Hamlet IV — Uncontainable Hamlet
- 7.Othello I — Miscegenation and Mixed Messages
- 8.Othello II — Monstrous Births
- 9.Othello III — "Ocular Proof"
- 10.Othello IV — Tragic Knowledge
- 11.King Lear I — Kingship and Kinship
- 12.King Lear II — "Unaccommodated Man"
- 13.King Lear III — The Stage of Fools
- 14.King Lear IV — "Is This the Promised End?"
- 15.MacBeth I — Desire and Equivocation
- 16.MacBeth II — "Dispute It Like a Man"
- 17.MacBeth III — Bloody Babes and Bloody Ends
- 18.Antony and Cleopatra I — Epic Desires
- 19.Antony and Cleopatra II — Identity Politics
- 20.Antony and Cleopatra III — The Art of Dying
- 21.Coriolanus I — The Loner and the Mob
- 22.Coriolanus II — The Theater of Politics
- 23.Coriolanus III — Mothers and Killers
- 24.Conclusion — Beyond Tragedy?