The strangeness of tragedy by Hammond, Paul, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The work of tragedy -- Aeschylus, Oresteia -- Sophocles, Electra -- Sophocles, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus -- Sophocles, Antigone -- Seneca, Thyestes -- Shakespeare, Macbeth -- Shakespeare, Othello -- Shakespeare, King Lear -- Racine, Phèdre -- Epilogue.…”
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Introducing Shakespeare's tragedies : a guide for teachers by Cahn, Victor L.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; A Few Words About the Tragedies; 1 Romeo and Juliet; 2 Julius Caesar; 3 Hamlet; 4 Othello; 5 King Lear; 6 Macbeth; Afterword; About the Author…”
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Wrinkled deep in time : aging in Shakespeare by Charney, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline -- The process of growing old, especially in Macbeth -- Time the destroyer -- "Heavy" fathers -- Politic old men: Polonius, Nestor, and Menenius -- Wise old men -- Falstaff -- Othello and Leontes -- Old warriors and statesmen in the English history plays -- Fatal attraction: Antony and Cleopatra -- Strong older women -- Older loving women -- Lusty older women.…”
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Shakespeare's Tragedies A Guide to Criticism. by Smith, Emma

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's Roman Carnival -- 12 Texts: An Overview -- 13 Texts: Critical Extracts -- Quarto and Folio King Lear -- Bad Taste and Bad Hamlet -- 14 Performance: An Overview -- 15 Performance: Critical Extracts -- Titus Andronicus -- Baz Luhrmann's Millennial Shakespeare -- Index…”
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Heterodox Shakespeare by Benson, Sean, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…: rehabilitating Malvolio's reading -- "Monsters of the deep": King Lear and the problem of evil -- Hamlet's walking dead -- Hamlet as meta(physical)theater -- Conclusion: "Test all things": Shakespearean heterodoxy.…”
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Shakespeare's political wisdom by Burns, Timothy, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Shakespeare's political wisdom -- Julius Caesar: the problem of classical republicanism -- Macbeth: ambition driven into darkness -- The Merchant of Venice: Roman virtue in a Christian commerical republic -- King Lear: the question of divine justice -- The Tempest: a philosopher-poet educating citizens.…”
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Hegel and Shakespeare on moral imagination by Bates, Jennifer Ann, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…A Hegelian reading of good and bad luck in Shakespearean drama (phen. of spirit, King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, a Midsummer night's dream) -- Tearing the fabric: Hegel's Antigone, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, and kinship-state conflict (phen. of spirit c. 6, Judith Butler's Antigone, Coriolanus) -- Aufhebung and anti-aufhebung: geist and ghosts in Hamlet (phen. of spirit, Hamlet) -- The problem of genius in King Lear: Hegel on the feeling soul and the tragedy of wonder (anthropology and psychology in the encyclopaedia, Philosophy of mind, King Lear) -- Richard II's mirror and the alienation of the Universal Will (of the I that is a We) (Richard II, phen. of spirit c. 5) -- Falstaff and the politics of wit: negative infinite judgment in a culture of alienation (Henry IV parts I & II, phen. of spirit c. 6, philosophy of right) -- Henry V's unchangeableness: his rejection of wit and his posture of virtue reinterpreted in the light of Hegel's theory of virtue (philosophy of right, Henry V) -- Hegel's theory of crime and evil: (re)tracing the rights of the sovereign self (aesthetics, phen. of spirit, phil. of right, Richard II through to Henry V) -- Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth and Henry V: conscience, hypocrisy, self-deceit and the tragedy of ethical life (phil. of right, Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry V) -- Negation of the negative infinite judgment versus sublation of it: punishment vs. pardon (phil. of right, phen. of spirit c. 6 and Henry VIII) -- Universal wit : the absolute theater of identity (phen. of spirit c. 6 and 8, Pericles, the Tempest) -- Absolute infections and their cure (phen. of spirit c. 6, the Winter's tale).…”
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Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality by Bach, Rebecca Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Before heterosexuality -- The homosocial King Lear: sex, men, and women before the valorization of lust and greed -- Restoration Shakespeare 1: adultery and the birth of heterosexuality -- Restoration Shakespeare 2: friends and libertines -- "Domestic tragedy" and emerging heterosexuality -- Othello in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the colonial origins of heterosexuality.…”
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Shakespeares tragedies by Harrison, G. B. (George Bagshawe), 1894-1991

Table of Contents: “…Troylus and Cressida; 7. Othello; 8. King Lear; 9. Macbeth; 10. Antony and Cleopatra; 11. …”
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Speech and performance in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays by Schalkwyk, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the sonnets -- Performatives : the sonnets, Antony and Cleopatra and As you like it -- Embodiment : the sonnets, Love's labour's lost, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night -- Interiority : the sonnets, Hamlet and King Lear -- Names : the sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Othello -- Transformations : the sonnets and All's well that ends well.…”
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Shakespearean representation : mimesis and modernity in Elizabethan tragedy by Felperin, Howard

Table of Contents: “…O' erdoing Termagant: Hamlet ; 3 Plays Within Plays: Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra; 4. A Painted Devil: Macbeth; 5. …”
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Shakespeare and the Reason : a Study of the Tragedies and the Problem Plays. by Hawkes, Terence

Table of Contents: “…'Othello'; 5. 'Macbeth'; 6. 'King Lear'; Conclusion; Index.…”
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At the bottom of Shakespeare's ocean by Mentz, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Fathoming: The temepest and King Lear -- Keeping watch: Othello -- Interlude: sunken treasure -- Swimming: The comedy of errors -- Beachcombing: Twelfth night -- Interlude: what the pirates said to Hamlet -- Fishing: Pericles -- Drowning: Timon of Athens -- Interlude: toward a blue cultural studies -- Warm water epilogue -- Reading the new thalassology.…”
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Shakespeare and the archpriest controversy : a study of some new sources. by Kaula, David

Table of Contents: “…Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. King Lear and the True Relation; 3. Hamlet and the Sparing Discoverie; 4. …”
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Music in Shakespearian tragedy by Sternfeld, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1914-1994

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Music Examples and Facsimiles; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; I Tradition of Vocal and Instrumental Music in Tragedy; II The Willow Song; III Ophelia's Songs; IV Magic Songs; V Adult Songs and Robert Armin; VI Adult Songs from Hamlet to Othello; VII Blank Verse, Prose and Songs in King Lear; VIII Instrumental Music, Part One: Tamburlaine, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida; IX Instrumental Music Part Two: Stringed Versus Wind Instruments.…”
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Front Row : Evenings at the Theatre. by Bainbridge, Beryl

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Introduction; 1992; The Wind in the Willows; Faith Healer; Henry IV, Part II; An Awfully Big Adventure; The Blue Angel; The Woman in Black; Déjá vu; Improvizafond; It Runs In The Family; 1993; Medea; Sunset Boulevard; Wallenstein; Separate Tables; Hysteria; Mr Director; Looking Through A Glass Onion; She Stoops To Conquer; 1994; Macbeth; Unfinished Business; The Government Inspector; Me and Mamie O'Rourke; King Lear; Les Misérables; Jack, A Night On The Town With John Barrymore; Home; A Busy Day; Don't Dress for Dinner; 1995; Oliver!…”
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Rescuing psychoanalysis from Freud and other essays in re-vision by Rudnytsky, Peter L.

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER SIX Rethinking King Lear: from incestuous fantasy to primitive anxietiesCHAPTER SEVEN The bridge across Clifton Road: Emory University and the future of psychoanalytic studies; APPENDIX "Nitty-gritty issues": an interview with Eric R. …”
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Shakespeare and the rival playwrights, 1600-1606 by Farley-Hills, David

Table of Contents: “…Anger's privilege : Timon of Athens and King Lear.…”
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Shakespeare's feminine endings : disfiguring death in the tragedies by Berry, Philippa, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Disfigured endings: sexual matters and Shakespeare's ars moriendi -- Double dying and other tragic inversions (Romeo and Juliet) -- Echoic language and tragic identity (Hamlet) -- Disclosing the feminine eye of death: tragedy and seeing in the dark (Othello) -- Fortune's fools: revolutions of time, fate and sovereignty (Macbeth) -- Cordelia's bond and Britannia's missing middle (King Lear).…”
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The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2. by Goddard, Harold C.

Table of Contents: “…Othello; Xxviii. Macbeth; Xxix. King Lear; Xxx. Timon Of Athens; Xxxi. Antony And Cleopatra; Xxxii. …”
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Essays on Shakespeare

Table of Contents: “…--"We came crying hither": an essay on some characteristics of King Lear, by M. Mack.…”
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What you will : gender, contract, and Shakespearean social space by Schwarz, Kathryn, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Virtue trouble -- Willing women -- Willful speech: metonymy and mastery -- Acts of will: misogyny and masquerade -- "My intents are fix'd": constant will in All's well that ends well -- "Will in overplus": recasting misogyny in the sonnets -- "Twixt will and will not": chastity and fracture in Measure for measure -- "Fallen out with my more headier will": dislocation in King Lear -- Epilogue: Or: the Roman matron.…”
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare : imagination in the age of early modern science by Roychoudhury, Suparna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance -- Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets -- Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost -- Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy" -- Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics -- Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth -- Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest -- Epilogue : the rude fantasticals.…”
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Finding the Jewish Shakespeare : the life and legacy of Jacob Gordin by Kaplan, Beth, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Denouement -- 5. The Jewish King Lear -- Epilogue. Gordin's legacy to the world and to his family -- Appendix. …”
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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes : dead body politics by Moore, Andrew, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Political power and the natural order: Richard III, Macbeth, and Coriolanus -- Shakespeare and the state of nature: King Lear and Othello -- Part II: The limits of politics. …”
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The muse as therapist : a new poetic paradigm for psychotherapy by Wilkinson, Heward

Table of Contents: “…Poetry dialogues with philosophy dialogues with poetry -- Reality, existence, and the Shakespeare authorship question : King Lear, Little Dorrit, and the man who was Shakespeare -- Poetic enactment and propositional truth : poetry and objectivity -- Epilogue: The poetry and politics of psychotherapy.…”
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Of human kindness : what Shakespeare teaches us about empathy by Cohen, Paula Marantz, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Shakespeare's empathetic imagination -- Richard III : unrealized potential -- Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V : beginning -- The Merchant of Venice : blueprint -- As You Like It : gender -- Hamlet : self -- Othello : race and class -- King Lear : age -- Measure for Measure : a world without empathy -- Antony and Cleopatra : wider vistas -- The Winter's Tale : across generations -- Conclusion.…”
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Tragedy and after : Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe by Faas, Ekbert, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Birth of Tragedy 25 Aeschylus's Early Tragedies -- Euripides : Towards Anti-tragedy -- Euripides: Towards Post-tragedy -- Shakespeare: The Theoretical Background -- From Tragic to Anti-tragic Closure -- Hamlet, or the Slave-Moralist Turned Ascetic Priest -- The Post-tragic Vision of Romance -- From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Goethe's Transcendence of Tragedy -- Tragedy and Psychology -- Conclusion.…”
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The music of the close : the final scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies by Foreman, Walter C., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…An Art of Dying; 3. Hamlet; 4. King Lear; 5. Othello and Antony & Cleopatra; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.…”
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Rethinking Shakespeare's political philosophy : from Lear to Leviathan by Schulman, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I Shakespearean Antiquity ; 1 The Birth of Tragicomedy (in the defeat of Hector by Ulysses); 2 Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman Plays; Part II Shakespearean Modernity; 3 King Lear and the State of Nature; 4 Shakespeare's Novus Ordo Seclorum: Freedom and Authority in the English Histories; 5 Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem; Epilogue: Brave New Worlds; NOTES; Index.…”
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Covering Shakespeare : an actor's saga of near misses and dogged endurance by Weston, David, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Measure for MeasureOthello; Macbeth; King Lear; Timon of Athens; Coriolanus; Antony and Cleopatra; Pericles; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest; Henry VIII (All is True); Afterthoughts; Synopses; Evenings with Shakspere [sic]; Shakespeare's Life up to 1590; Index…”
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Psychoanalytic ideas and Shakespeare

Table of Contents: “…/ Gerald Wooster, Peter Buckroyd -- The Caledonian tragedy / Peter Hildebrand -- Some considerations of shame, guilt, and forgiveness derived principally from King Lear / Michael Conran -- The other side of the wall. …”
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Playing bit parts in Shakespeare by Mahood, M. M. (Molly Maureen)

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface page; Entities and nonentities; Transposes; Supporters; Stress and counterstress; Substance and shadow in Richard the Third; Friends of Brutus; Measure for Measure: or, the Way of the World; Service and servility in King Lear; The varying tide in Antony and Cleopatra; The Tempest from the forecastle; Notes and references; Appendix: Who says what? …”
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Martyrs and players in early modern England : tragedy, religion and violence on stage by Anderson, David K., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Tragedy and Religious Violence in Early Modern England; 1 Violence against the Sacred: Martyrdom and the Doctrine of the Persecuted Church; 2 The Tragedy of Gravity: William Shakespeare's King Lear; 3 Tragic Participation: John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; 4 Tragic Complicity: Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 5 Tragic Ambivalence: John Milton's Samson Agonistes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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William Shakespeare, the complete works by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTEMPORARY ALLUSIONS TO SHAKESPEARE -- THE SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S TIME -- COMMENDATORY POEMS AND PREFACES (1599-1640) -- THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA -- THE TAMING OF THE SHREW -- THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION -- RICHARD DUKE OF YORKE -- TITUS ANDRONICUS -- HENRY VI PART ONE -- RICHARD III -- VENUS AND ADONIS -- THE RAPE OF LUCRECE -- THE COMEDIE OF ERRORS -- LOUES LABORS LOST -- LOUES LABOURS WON -- A MIDSOMMER NIGHTS DREAME -- ROMEO AND IULIET -- RICHARD II -- KING IOHN -- THE MERCHANT OF VENICE -- 1 HENRY IV -- THE MERRY WIllES OF WINDSOR -- 2 HENRY IV -- MUCH ADOE ABOUT NOTHING -- HENRY V -- IULIUS CiESAR -- AS YOU LIKE IT -- HAMLET -- TWELFE NIGHT -- TROYLUS AND CRESSIDA -- SONNETS AND 'A LOUERS COMPLAINT' -- VARIOUS POEMS -- SIR THOMAS MOORE -- MEASURE, FOR MEASURE -- OTHELLO -- ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL -- TIMON OF ATHENS -- THE HISTORIE OF KING LEAR -- THE TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR -- MACBETH -- ANTHONIE, AND CLEOPATRA -- PERICLES -- A DIPLOMATIC REPRINT OF 'PERICLES' (1609) -- CORIOLANUS -- THE WINTERS TALE -- CYMBELINE -- THE TEMPEST -- CARDENIO -- ALL IS TRUE -- THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN -- A SELECT GLOSSARY -- INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF SONNETS.…”
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Millennial stages : essays and reviews, 2001-2005 by Brustein, Robert, 1927-2023

Table of Contents: “…-- Comedy is harder: Private lives; The Underpants -- Prescient plays: Far away; A number -- Clever ladies: imaginary friends; adult entertainment -- Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take me out; Our lady of 121st street -- Dysfunctional families, dysgenic dynasties: Salome; Gypsy; Long day's journey into night -- Smelly orthodoxies: A bad friend; I am my own wife -- Shotover's apocalypse: Omnium gatherum; Anna in the tropics -- Palace and garden: Maria Stuart; House and garden -- The political power of puns: Caroline, or change; The beard of Avon -- A king and two queens: King Lear; Valhalla -- Homeboy Godot: topdog/Underdog; Fortune's fool -- Pyrotechnics and ice: Jimpers; Frozen -- The past revisited: The frogs; After the fall -- In the jungle: Rose Rage, Hedda Gabler -- Impersonations: Monty Python's Spamalot; Orson's shadow: Julius Caesar -- Prosecution plays: Doubt; Romance; The last days of Judas Iscariot; The Pillowman; Thom Pain; The light in the Piazza -- theatre of the mushy tushy: Le dernier caravanserail (Okyssees) -- Lear's lendings: King Lear.…”
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Millennial stages : essays and reviews, 2001-2005 by Brustein, Robert, 1927-2023

Table of Contents: “…-- Comedy is harder: Private lives; The Underpants -- Prescient plays: Far away; A number -- Clever ladies: imaginary friends; adult entertainment -- Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take me out; Our lady of 121st street -- Dysfunctional families, dysgenic dynasties: Salome; Gypsy; Long day's journey into night -- Smelly orthodoxies: A bad friend; I am my own wife -- Shotover's apocalypse: Omnium gatherum; Anna in the tropics -- Palace and garden: Maria Stuart; House and garden -- The political power of puns: Caroline, or change; The beard of Avon -- A king and two queens: King Lear; Valhalla -- Homeboy Godot: topdog/Underdog; Fortune's fool -- Pyrotechnics and ice: Jimpers; Frozen -- The past revisited: The frogs; After the fall -- In the jungle: Rose Rage, Hedda Gabler -- Impersonations: Monty Python's Spamalot; Orson's shadow: Julius Caesar -- Prosecution plays: Doubt; Romance; The last days of Judas Iscariot; The Pillowman; Thom Pain; The light in the Piazza -- theatre of the mushy tushy: Le dernier caravanserail (Okyssees) -- Lear's lendings: King Lear.…”
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Vital strife : sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care by Parris, Benjamin, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Heavy with care : sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England -- Hercules asleep : stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- "The body is with the king, but the king Is not with the body" : sovereign sleep in the tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear -- "Watching to banish care" : sleep and insomnia in The faerie queene -- "Inhabit lax" : insomniac care and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise lost -- Coda: A vital rationality.…”
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The poetics of plot : the case of English Renaissance drama by Pavel, Thomas G., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Plot-Grammar: Marlowe's Tamburlaine I; Chapter Three: Semantic Considerations: Narrative Domains; Chapter Four: Marlowe -- An Exercise in Inconstancy; Chapter Five: Two Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy and Arden of Feversham; Chapter Six: King Lear; Chapter Seven: Move-Grammars and Styles of Plot; Appendix: A Few Considerations on the Formalism of Move-Grammars; Notes; References; Index.…”
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The student's guide to Shakespeare by McKenzie, William, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Tragedies -- Romeo and Juliet -- Hamlet -- Othello -- Macbeth -- King Lear -- Anthony and Cleopatra -- part II. Comedies -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- Twelfth night, or what you will -- Measure for measure -- part III. …”
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