Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and th

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a

H. B. Charlton focuses on Shakespeare's tragedies specifically as plays along with the themes of man and morality.