Shakespeare and the soliloquy in early modern English drama /

Table of Contents: “…Choosing between shame and guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear /…”

Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare /

Table of Contents: “…'Science' of astrology in Shakespeare's sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear /…”
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Shakespeare & the outer mystery / by West, Robert Hunter

Table of Contents: “…The questions -- The evidence -- Outerness & the supernatural -- King Hamlet's ambiguous ghost --Night's black agents in "Macbeth" -- Ceremonial magic in "The Tempest" -- Iago & the mytery of iniquity -- Othello and damnation -- The Christianness of "Othello" & "King Lear" -- Sex, death & pessimism in "King Lear" -- In the great hand of God.…”
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Shakespeare the renaissance humanist : moral philosophy and his plays / by Raspa, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare, the Critics, and Humanism -- Metaphysics as the Way Things Are: King John and Hamlet -- The Wisdom of King Lear -- Macbeth's Imagination as Fatal Flaw -- Beauty and Misfortune in Romeo and Juliet -- Of Animals and Men: The Tempest.…”

Christian humanism in Shakespeare : a study in religion and literature / by Oser, Lee, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- On not understanding King Lear's hidden God -- Conclusion: Shakespeare and the radical middle.…”
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Shakespeare's feminine endings : disfiguring death in the tragedies / by Berry, Philippa, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Disfigured endings: sexual matters and Shakespeare's ars moriendi -- Double dying and other tragic inversions (Romeo and Juliet) -- Echoic language and tragic identity (Hamlet) -- Disclosing the feminine eye of death: tragedy and seeing in the dark (Othello) -- Fortune's fools: revolutions of time, fate and sovereignty (Macbeth) -- Cordelia's bond and Britannia's missing middle (King Lear).…”
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare : imagination in the age of early modern science / by Roychoudhury, Suparna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance -- Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets -- Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost -- Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy" -- Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics -- Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth -- Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest -- Epilogue : the rude fantasticals.…”
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Devil theatre : demonic possession and exorcism in English Renaissance drama, 1558-1642 / by Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTION: Possession and Exorcism on the Stage -- Possession and the Modern Historian: Psycho-Pathology and Cultural Meaning -- Possession, Exorcism and the New Historicism -- The Organisation of this Book -- CHAPTER ONE: POSSESSION AND SELFHOOD: This Strange Fury: Possession and the Masculine Self -- Pinch's Patients: Exorcism and Inwardness in The Comedy of Errors -- Sad and Merry Madness: Possession and Selfhood in Twelfth Night -- Unaccommodated Man: King Lear and the Loss of Exorcism -- Histerica passio: King Lear, Possession and Masculine Identity -- CHAPTER TWO: EXORCISM AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGION: The Companions of Antichrist: Exorcism and Orthodox Eschatology -- Little Darrel's Tricks: Possession in Volpone and The Devil Is an Ass -- The Shop of Satan: Jonson and Eschatology -- A Spit Red Hot: Jonson and Popular Witchcraft Beliefs -- Poor and Envious Witchcraft: Demonology and The Masque of Queens -- A Most Miraculous Work: Macbeth and Demonological Scepticism -- CHAPTER THREE: POSSESSION, EXORCISM AND THEATRE: Did I Do't well Enough? …”
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The English clown tradition from the middle ages to Shakespeare / by Hornback, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Unearthing Yoricks : literary archeology and the ideologies of early English clowning -- Folly as proto-racism : blackface in the "natural" fool tradition -- "Sports and follies against the Pope" : Tudor evangelical lords of misrule -- "Verie devout asses" : ignorant Puritan clowns -- The fool "by art" : the all-licensed "artificial" fool in the King Lear quarto -- Epilogue. License revoked : ending an era.…”
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Shakespeare and the idea of Western civilization / by Young, R. V., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Learning from Shakespeare, poet of Western civilization -- Shakespeare on love (and marriage) -- Juliet's nominalism and the failure of love -- The racial "other" in The merchant of Venice and Othello -- Shakespeare's history plays and the Erasmian Christian prince -- Freedom and tyranny in Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- "Light thickens" : freedom and tyranny in Macbeth -- Hope and despair in King Lear : the gospel and the crisis of natural law -- The tempest in the academic teapot.…”
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Martyrs and players in early modern England : tragedy, religion and violence on stage / by Anderson, David K., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Tragedy and Religious Violence in Early Modern England; 1 Violence against the Sacred: Martyrdom and the Doctrine of the Persecuted Church; 2 The Tragedy of Gravity: William Shakespeare's King Lear; 3 Tragic Participation: John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; 4 Tragic Complicity: Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 5 Tragic Ambivalence: John Milton's Samson Agonistes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The poetics of plot : the case of English Renaissance drama / by Pavel, Thomas G., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Plot-Grammar: Marlowe's Tamburlaine I; Chapter Three: Semantic Considerations: Narrative Domains; Chapter Four: Marlowe -- An Exercise in Inconstancy; Chapter Five: Two Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy and Arden of Feversham; Chapter Six: King Lear; Chapter Seven: Move-Grammars and Styles of Plot; Appendix: A Few Considerations on the Formalism of Move-Grammars; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Distracted subjects : madness and gender in Shakespeare and early modern culture / by Neely, Carol Thomas, 1939-

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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Secret Shakespeare : studies in theatre, religion and resistance / by Wilson, Richard, 1950-

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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Spectacular performances;essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in e.

Table of Contents: “…Othello and the end of comedy; 5. King Lear and the art of forgetting; 6. The case for Comus; 7. …”
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Stages of madness : sin, sickness, and Seneca in Shakespearean drama / by Power, Andrew J., 1977-

Shakespeare and early modern religion /

Table of Contents: “…: the Godless world of King Lear / David Loewenstein ; "Another Golgotha" / Ewan Fernie ; Shakespeare and wisdom literature / Michael Witmore ; Awakening faith in The Winter's Tale / Richard McCoy ; Hamlet, Henry VIII, and the question of religion : a post-secular perspective / Paul Stevens ; Converting Henry : truth, history, and historical faith in Henry VIII / Michael Davies ; Shakespeare's non-Christian religions / Matthew Dimmock -- Afterword / Brian Cummings.…”
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Shakespeare and the soliloquy in early modern English drama /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Roman Soliloquy; Chapter 2 Tudor Transformations; Chapter 3 Doubtful Battle: Marlowe's Soliloquies; Chapter 4 Shakespeare and the Female Voice in Soliloquy; Chapter 5 Contemplative Idiots in Soliloquy: Rhetorical Parody, Laughable Deformity and the Audience; Chapter 6 Giving Voice to History in Shakespeare; Chapter 7 Hamlet and Of Truth: Humanism and the Disingenuous Soliloquy; Chapter 8 Choosing between Shame and Guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, and King Lear…”
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Shakespeare's strangers and English law / by Raffield, Paul

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