Shakespeare's Tragedies

Defining Tragedy

Shakespearean Tragedy in Context

Hamlet I — "Stand and Unfold Yourself"

Hamlet II — The Performance of Revenge

Hamlet III — Difficult Women

Hamlet IV — Uncontainable Hamlet

Othello I — Miscegenation and Mixed Messages

Othello II — Monstrous Births

Othello III — "Ocular Proof"

Othello IV — Tragic Knowledge

King Lear I — Kingship and Kinship

King Lear II — "Unaccommodated Man"

King Lear III — The Stage of Fools

King Lear IV — "Is This the Promised End?"

MacBeth I — Desire and Equivocation

MacBeth II — "Dispute It Like a Man"

MacBeth III — Bloody Babes and Bloody Ends

Antony and Cleopatra I — Epic Desires

Antony and Cleopatra II — Identity Politics

Antony and Cleopatra III — The Art of Dying

Coriolanus I — The Loner and the Mob

Coriolanus II — The Theater of Politics

Coriolanus III — Mothers and Killers

Conclusion — Beyond Tragedy?