Table of Contents: “…The picture of nobody: Shakespeare in the time of the political -- Welsh roots: Shakespeare's brute part -- O World: the echoes of Rome in Julius Caesar -- Denmark's a prison: Hamlet and the rules of art -- Great stage of fools: King Lear and the King's men -- Double trouble: Regime change in Macbeth -- Your crown's awry: the visual turn in Antony and Cleopatra -- Like an eagle in a dovecot: the intrusion of the time into the play -- No sovereignty: Shakespeare's voyage to Greece.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Bridging the gap between text and performance -- Creating Lear onstage -- Cutting Shakespeare -- A director's concept for The comedy of errors -- Interacting with the actors : The merchant of Venice, King Lear, and Hamlet -- Set design and theatrical presence in Julius Caesar -- Adapting A midsummer night's dream for the cast, producer, and theater -- A mirror for staging Hamlet : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- "Why, Sir, is Shakespeare eternal?" …”

Table of Contents: “…Early modern English idiom in a prose passage from King Lear.--Tinker, M. Theme in Timon of Athens.--Welsh, A. …”

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Series Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Father Uncertain. King Lear -- 2 Athens Scrambled. A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 3 Mothers and Sons. …”
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Table of Contents: “…How not to murder Caesar -- The poet as fool and priest: a discourse on method -- "I am but shadow of myself": ceremony and design in I Henry VI -- Shakespeare, Peele, and the King of Scots -- King John: the ordering of this present time -- "Swoll'n with some other grief": Shakespeare's Prince Hal trilogy -- The Merchant of Venice: the gentle bond -- King Lear: the quality of nothing -- The king's language: Shakespeare's drama as social discovery -- Notes on the theory of intrinsic interpretation.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A case of unfair proportions ; Upon one bank and shoal of time ; Love stories ; Making love ; On being too deeply loved ; Doing nothing ; King Lear's hidden tragedy -- Appendix A: a note on Lear's motivation -- Appendix B: a note on Shakespeare and rhetoric.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Death in victory : Shakespeare's tragic reconciliations -- Climax and protagonist in Shakespeare's dramatic structure -- Shakespeare's art : the point of view -- Shakespeare's dramatic vagueness -- Hamlet as minister and scourge -- Hamlet's fifth soliloquy -- The monent of final suspense in Hamlet : "We defy augury" -- The death of Hamlet : a study in plot and character -- Dramatic structure and criticism : plot in Hamlet -- Hamlet's "sullied" or "solid" flesh : a bibliographical case-history -- The structure of King Lear -- Theme and structure in King Henry IV, pt. …”

Table of Contents: “…As you like it ; Coriolanus ; King Lear ; King Richard the Second ; Twelfth night -- v. 3. …”

Table of Contents: “…: imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Divisions in the discourses of distraction -- Initiating madness onstage: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Spanish Tragedy -- Reading the language of distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear -- Diagnosing women's melancholy: case histories and the Jailer's Daughter's Cure in The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Destablizing lovesickness, gender, and sexuality: Twelfth Night and As You Like It -- Confining madmen and transgressing boundaries: The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night -- Rethinking confinement in Early Modern England: The place of bedlam in history and drama -- Epilogue: Then and now.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams.…”

Table of Contents: “…'All's with me meet that I can fashion fit': physic and nomos in King Lear / Nic Panagopoulos -- 5. Hospitality, friendship and republicanism in Timon of Athens / John Drakakis -- 6. …”

Table of Contents: “…'All the world is of this humor': senescence and melancholy in Shakespeare's England and the case of King Lear -- Old age and the uses of comedy: Bibbiena's Calandra and Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor -- Comedy and Florentine politics: the problem of generations -- Andrea Calmo, Renaissance Venice, and the challenge of the gerontocratic ideal -- 'Caso unico nel mondo delle Maschere' the comic mutations of the Pantalone mask in Flaminio Scala's Commedia dell' Arte scenarios -- Jonson's Alchemist and Dekker's Old Fortunatus: magic, mortality and the debasement of (the golden) age -- Old age and the Utopian project: The Tempest and The Old Law.…”

Table of Contents: “…. -- William Shakespeare, King Lear -- August Strindberg, Miss Julie -- August Strindberg, A dream play -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet -- Eugene O'Neill, Long day's journey into night -- Yukio Mishima, Madame de Sade -- Henrik Ibsen, A doll's house -- Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt -- William Shakespeare, The winter's tale -- J.B.P. …”
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Table of Contents: “…FRONT COVER -- HALF TITLE PAGE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 -- Negativity and language in King Lear (W. Shakespeare) -- CHAPTER 2 -- On the chances and dead-ends of saying "no"-Bartleby the Scrivener (H. …”
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Table of Contents: “…--Titus Andronicus and King Lear: a study in continuity, by T.P. Harrison.…”

Table of Contents: “…William Shakespeare: King Lear, Macbeth.--v. 8. Willaim Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Othello.…”

Table of Contents: “…Wrapped in a player's hide : Shakespeare's secret history -- Ghostly fathers : Shakeshafte and the Jesuits -- Secrets as a dumb man : two comedies of Italy and the genesis of secrecy -- No news but the old news : Shakespeare and the tragedy of Arden -- A bloody question : the politics of Venus and Adonis -- Love in idleness : the stripping of the altars in A midsummer night's dream -- Dyed in mummy : Othello and the mulberries -- The pilot's thumb : Macbeth and the martyrs -- Voyage to Tunis : new history and the old world of The tempest -- Unseasonable laughter : the context of Cardenio -- The statue of our queen : Shakespeare's open secret -- A winter's tale : King Lear in the Pennines.…”
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Table of Contents: “…/ by William Shakespeare -- King Lear, act II, scene 4, beginning "Hear me my Lord" / by William Shakespeare -- King Lear, act III, scene 2 / by William Shakespeare -- King Lear, act IV, scene 7, beginning "Where have I been?" …”