SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES

CONTENTS

1. SHAKESPEARE: THE CONTEXTS

Dickson, A. (2005). Shakespeare’s Life. In The Rough Guide to Shakespeare: The Plays;
The Poems; The Life (pp. 449-467). London and New York: Rough Guides.
Gibson, R. (2000). Contexts. In Shakespearean and Jacobean Tragedy (pp. 15-39).
Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
Hackett, H. (2013a). Introduction: Renaissance and Reformation. In A Short History of
English Renaissance Drama (pp. 1-19). London and New York: I.B. Tauris.
Hackett, H. (2013b). “Timeline”. In A Short History of English Renaissance Drama (pp.
21-25). London and New York: I.B. Tauris.
Kermode, F. (2004). Reformation and the Succession Problem. In The Age of
Shakespeare (pp.9-24). London: Phoenix.
McEvoy, S. (2006). Chronology. In Shakespeare: The Basics (2nd ed., pp. 266-268).
London and New York: Routledge.

2. THE EARLY MODERN STAGE

McDonald, R. (2001). Performances, Playhouses, and Players. In The Bedford
Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents (pp. 109-126).
Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

3. TRAGEDY
Bloom, H. (1999). Shakespeare’s Universalism. In Shakespeare: The Invention of the
Human (pp. 1-17). London: Fourth Estate.
Bradley, A.C. (1992). The Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy. In Shakespearean
Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (3rd ed., pp. 1-30).
Basingstoke and London: Macmillan.
Dollimore, J. (1989). Introduction. In Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in
the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2nd ed., pp. x- lxviii). New
York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Dollimore, J. and Sinfield, A. (Eds.). (1994). Foreword to the First Edition: Cultural
Materialism. In Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2nd ed., pp.
vii-viii). Manchester: Manchester UP.

4. HAMLET
Barker, F. (1992). Hamlet’s Unfulfilled Interiority. In R. Wilson, and R. Dutton, New
Historicism and Renaissance Drama (pp. 157-166). London: Longman.
Jardine, L. (1996). `No offence i’ th’ world’: Unlawful Marriage in Hamlet. In Reading
Shakespeare Historically (pp. 38-47). London and New York: Routledge.
Jardine, L. (1983). `I am Duchess of Malfi still’: Wealth, Inheritance and the Spectre of
Strong Women. Coda: hic mulier: female bogey. In Still Harping on Daughters.
Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (pp. 92-93). New York and
London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Sinfield, A. (2015). Introduction. In W. Shakespeare, Hamlet. (T.J.B Spencer, Ed.) (pp.
xxi-lviii). London and New York: Penguin.
Smith, R. (1992). A Heart Cleft in Twain: The Dilemma of Shakespeare’s Gertrude. In M.
Coyle (Ed.), Hamlet: Contemporary Critical Essays (pp. 80-95). Basingstoke and
London: Macmillan.

5. OTHELLO
Greenblatt, S. (1980). The Improvisation of Power. In Renaissance Self-Fashioning:
From More to Shakespeare (pp. 222-254). Chicago and London: U. of Chicago P.
McAlindon, T. (2015). Introduction. In W. Shakespeare, Othello. (K. Muir, Ed.) (pp. xxi-
lxiv). London and New York: Penguin.
Sinfield, A. (1992). Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility. In
Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading (pp. 29-
51). Oxford: Clarendon.
Vaughan, V.M. (1994). Racial Discourse: Black and White. In Othello: A Contextual
History (pp. 51-70). Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

6. KING LEAR
Dollimore, J. (1989): King Lear and Essentialist Humanism. In Radical Tragedy: Religion,
Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2nd
ed., pp. 189-203). New York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Eagleton, T. (1993). Language and Value in King Lear. In K. Ryan (Ed.), King Lear (pp. 84-
91). Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave.
McLuskie, K. (1985). The Patriarchal Bard: Feminist Criticism and Shakespeare: King
Lear and Measure for Measure. In J. Dollimore and A. Sinfield (Eds.), Political
Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism (pp. 88-188). Manchester:
Manchester UP.
Ryan, K. (2015). Introduction. In W. Shakespeare, King Lear (G. Hunter, Ed.) (xxi-lxiv).
London and New York: Penguin.
Serpieri, A. (1992). The Breakdown of Medieval Hierarchy in King Lear. In J. Drakakis
(Ed.), Shakespearean Tragedy (pp. 84-95). London: Longman.