The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (2nd edition)

Only a decade after the original Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy appeared, comes this second edition, again edited by McEachern, an English professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Seeking, like its predecessor, “to acquaint the undergraduate reader with the forms, contexts, kinds and critical and theatrical lives” of Shakespeare’s ten tragedies, from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus, the rationale behind its appearance is the sheer “volume and pace” of criticism appearing since 2003 (p. ix). Once more, a distinguished array of academics from the USA and Britain has contributed. The result is a collection of impressive, if uneven,...