The Oxford Handbook of SHAKESPEAR EAN TR AGEDY The Oxford Handbook of SHAK ESPEAR EAN TR AGEDY Edited by MICHAEL NEILL and DAVID SCHALKWYK 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6dp, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2016 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2016933510 ISBN 978– 0– 19– 872419– 3 Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. Contents List of Figures  xi List of Contributors  xiii PART I GENRE 1. What Is Shakespearean Tragedy?  3 Paul A. Kottman 2. The Classical Inheritance  19 Richard Halpern 3. The Medieval Inheritance  35 Rory Loughnane 4. The Romantic Inheritance  54 Edward Pechter 5. Ethics and Shakespearean Tragedy  71 Tzachi Zamir 6. Character in Shakespearean Tragedy  89 Emma Smith 7. Preposterous Nature in Shakespeare’s Tragedies 104 Philip Armstrong 8. Shakespearean Tragedy and the Language of Lament  120 Lynne Magnusson 9. The Pity of It: Shakespearean Tragedy and Affect  135 David Hillman 10. ‘Do You See This?’ The Politics of Attention in Shakespearean Tragedy  151 Steven Mullaney vi Contents 11. Tragedy and Religion: Religion and Revenge in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet  167 Peter Lake 12. Shakespeare’s Anatomies of Death  184 Richard Sugg 13. ‘Minded Like the Weather’: The Tragic Body and its Passions  202 Gail Kern Paster 14. Shakespeare’s Tragedy and English History  218 Andrew Hadfield 15. Shakespeare’s Tragedy and Roman History  234 Tom Bishop 16. Tragedy and the Satiric Voice  250 Hester Lees-J effries 17. ‘The action of my life’: Tragedy, Tragicomedy, and Shakespeare’s Mimetic Experiments  267 Subha Mukherji 18. Queer Tragedy, or Two Meditations on Cause  285 Lee Edelman and Madhavi Menon PART II TEXTUAL ISSUES 19. Authorial Revision in the Tragedies  301 Paul Werstine 20. Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy  316 Michael Witmore, Jonathan Hope, and Michael Gleicher PART III READING THE TRAGEDIES 21. ‘Romaine Tragedie’: The Designs of Titus Andronicus  339 Michael Neill 2 2. Romeo and Juliet as Event 358 Crystal Bartolovich Contents vii 23. Julius Caesar: Making History  374 Emily C. Bartels 24. The Question of Hamlet  390 Catherine Belsey 25. Seeing Blackness: Reading Race in Othello  405 Ian Smith 26. King Lear and the Death of the World  421 Leah S. Marcus 27. ‘O horror! horror! horror!’ Macbeth and Fear  437 Andrew J. Power 28. Antony and Cleopatra  452 Bernhard Klein 29. Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Language  468 David Schalkwyk PART IV STAGE AND SCREEN 30. Early Modern Tragedy and Performance  489 Tiffany Stern 31. Performing Shakespearean Tragedy, 1660‒1780  505 Peter Holland 32. Staging Shakespearean Tragedy: The Nineteenth Century  523 Russell Jackson 33. Tragedy in Twentieth and Twenty- first Century Theatre Production: Hamlet, Lear, and the Politics of Intimacy  540 Bridget Escolme 34. Ontological Shivers: The Cinematic Afterlives of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet  556 Courtney Lehmann 35. Hamlet: Tragedy and Film Adaptation  572 Douglas Lanier viii Contents 36. Intermediated Bodies and Bodies of Media: Screen Othellos  588 Sujata Iyengar 37. Screening the Tragedies: King Lear  607 MacDonald P. Jackson 38. Macbeth on Changing Screens  624 Katherine Rowe 39. The Roman Plays on Screen: Autonomy, Serialization, Conflation  642 Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne- Guerrin 40. ‘The Bowe of Ulysses’: Reworking the Tragedies of Shakespeare  658 Peter Byrne 41. Shakespeare’s Tragedies on the Operatic Stage  673 William Germano PART V THE TRAGEDIES WORLDWIDE: (I) EUROPEAN RESPONSES 42. The Tragedies in Italy  691 Shaul Bassi 43. The Tragedies in Germany  706 Andreas Höfele 44. French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy:  Between Liberty and Memory  726 Pascale Drouet and Nathalie Rivère de Carles 45. Shakespearean Tragedy in Eastern Europe  746 Pavel Drábek 46. Shakespearean Tragedy in Russia: In Equal Scale Weighing Delight and Dole  761 John Givens PART VI THE TRAGEDIES WORLDWIDE: (II) THE WIDER WORLD 47. Shakespearean Tragedy in the Nineteenth- Century United States: The Case of Julius Caesar 779 Gay Smith Contents ix 48. Unsettling the Bard: Australasia and the Pacific  795 Mark Houlahan 49. Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Southern Africa  811 Colette Gordon, Daniel Roux, and David Schalkwyk 50. In Blood Stepped in: Tragedy and the Modern Israelites  833 Avraham Oz 51. Shakespeare’s Tragedies in North Africa and the Arab World  847 Khalid Amine 52. Shakespearean Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean  864 Alfredo Michel Modenessi And Margarida Gandara Rauen 53. Shakespearean Tragedy in India: Politics of Genre—or How Newness Entered Indian Literary Culture 881 Poonam Trivedi 54. ‘It is the East’: Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia  896 Alexa Huang Index  913