Shakespeare and Loss

Shakespeare and Loss explores how, in Shakespeare's late tragedies ( Hamlet , King Lear , Timon of Athens , Macbeth , Coriolanus , and Antony and Cleopatra ), some of the most fundamental forms of understanding and life that bind human communities together—grieving; loving; giving; acting and doing; speaking and being human; marrying, conversing, and judging—can become dangerously, even lethally obscure. These losses, Sarah Beckwith contends, shape the form, plot, and preoccupations that the lat