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Title: Tragedy and the Witness: Shakespeare and Beyond

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dc:title Tragedy and the Witness: Shakespeare and Beyond
dc:creator Fred Parker
dc:rights ©2025 Fred Parker, CC BY-NC 4.0
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dc:language en-US
dc:date 2025-04-09T11:15:44+00:00
dc:description As he dies, Hamlet pleads with Horatio to ‘report me aright … tell my story’. This book deals with the task of bearing witness to anguish, atrocity, and madness, as these are staged in the tragic theatre. Focusing on the relationship between the protagonist and the onlooker or witness, it explores how the tragic figure, often and understandably viewed as alien or culpable or profoundly strange, struggles to be understood. Centred on Shakespeare, its wide-ranging approach also introduces works by (among others) the Greeks, Racine, Ibsen, Pirandello, Kafka, Beckett, and Kane. 
The discussion intersects with trauma studies and with psychoanalytic theory, especially around how subjective experience is ‘held’ by others. The challenge of entering into such difficult experience is likened to the offering of hospitality to the foreigner or stranger: the challenge of overcoming xenophobia. Another large concern is with how tragedy represents madness, and how far such states of mind may be shared with an audience, particularly through the lens of King Lear. 
Written in an accessible style, this book grounds tragedy in matters that resonate in common experience, from mental breakdown and our need to be heard to questions around grieving, trauma, and the ethics of telling someone’s story.
dc:subject Tragic Drama;Witnessing and Testimony;Shakespeare;Trauma Studies;Madness in Literature;Ethics of Storytelling
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Outlines

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TOC Outline

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Overview: Phaedra and the Nurse
  8. 2. Welcoming the Stranger
    1. Hamlet’s request
    2. Antigone and the chorus
    3. Telling the hero’s story
    4. Admitting the alien
  9. 3. Imperfect Witness
    1. Representation as betrayal in Shakespeare
    2. Heroes and megastars: seeing double
    3. Fantasising the heroic: The Wild Duck and The Master Builder
    4. Antony and Cleopatra
  10. 4. The Crime and Punishment Story
    1. Phèdre
    2. The Trial
    3. Molora: a post-apartheid Oresteia
  11. 5. Giving Audience to Madness
    1. ‘Witness me. See me.’ Beckett’s Not I and Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis
    2. Othello, Hamlet, and maternal support
    3. Playing and playing mad: Pirandello’s Henry IV
    4. Macbeth
    5. King Lear
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index
  14. About the Team
  15. This book need not end here…
  16. You may also be interested in:
  17. Back cover

Headings Outline

  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Overview: Phaedra and the Nurse
  • 2. Welcoming the Stranger
    • Hamlet’s request
    • Antigone and the chorus
    • Telling the hero’s story
    • Admitting the alien
  • 3. Imperfect Witness
    • Representation as betrayal in Shakespeare
    • Heroes and megastars: seeing double
    • Fantasising the heroic: The Wild Duck and The Master Builder
    • Antony and Cleopatra
  • 4. The Crime and Punishment Story
    • Phèdre
    • The Trial
    • Molora: a post-apartheid Oresteia
  • 5. Giving Audience to Madness
    • ‘Witness me. See me.’ Beckett’s Not I and Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis
    • Othello, Hamlet, and maternal support
    • Playing and playing mad: Pirandello’s Henry IV
    • Macbeth
      • Imperfect speaking and the inner world
      • Mourning and ending
    • King Lear
      • Lear as child
      • The Bacchae and the death of Cordelia: grief, witness, and the theatre
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Team
  • This book need not end here…
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  • Contents
    • Landmarks

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