num_pages: 292
description: This Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of ten Shakespearean tragedies. It includes the four major tragedies and Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Chapters on a demanding theatrical genre are clear, concise and informative. They consider how Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified; and how it has fared in performance.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
genres: Literary Criticism, Drama, Tragedy, Criticism, Reference, Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 42
publisher: Cambridge University Press