Topics: 1. Defining Tragedy 2. Shakespearean Tragedy in Context 3. Hamlet I—"Stand and unfold yourself" 4. Hamlet II—The Performance of Revenge 5. Hamlet III—Difficult Women 6. Hamlet IV—Uncontainable Hamlet 7. Othello I—Miscegenation and Mixed Messages 8. Othello II—Monstrous Births 9. Othello III—"Ocular Proof" 10. Othello IV—Tragic Knowledge 11. King Lear I—Kingship and Kinship 12. King Lear II—"Unaccommodated Man" 13. King Lear III—The Stage of Fools 14. King Lear IV—"Is this the promised end?" 15. Macbeth I—Desire and Equivocation 16. Macbeth II—"Dispute it like a man" 17. Macbeth III—Bloody Babes and Bloody Ends 18. Antony and Cleopatra I—Epic Desires 19. Antony and Cleopatra II—Identity Politics 20. Antony and Cleopatra III—The Art of Dying 21. Coriolanus I—The Loner and the Mob 22. Coriolanus II—The Theater of Politics 23. Coriolanus III—Mothers and Killers 24. Conclusion—Beyond Tragedy?
