The four-volume "Companion to Shakespeare's Works," compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare's tragedies.
Contains original essays on every Shakespearean tragedy from "Titus Andronicus" to "Coriolanus."
Includes thirteen 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.
Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars.
Complements David Scott Kastan's "A Companion to Shakespeare "(1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context.
Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.