Anxious pleasures : Shakespearean comedy and the nation-state / by Hall, Jonathan, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The comic text and natural history -- Mercantilism and desire in The Comedy of errors -- A future for capitalism in The Merchant of Venice -- Modernity and archaism in Marlowe's Jew of Malta -- War, wit, and closure in Love's labour's lost -- Sexual politics in A Midsummer night's dream -- Patriarchy rescued in Two gentlemen of Verona -- "Adoption strives with nature": the slip of patriarchal signifiers in All's well that ends well -- Ideology and resistance in The Taming of the shrew -- From double words to single vision: patriarchal desire in Much ado about nothing and Othello --Absolutism and the construction of the scopic drive -- Carnival and plot in Henry IV, parts 1 & 2 -- Measure for measure and the displacement of carnival -- From Shakespearean comedy to postmodernism: a small step for theory.…”

Shakespeare and Renaissance literary theories : Anglo-Italian transactions /

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Shakespeare and Protestant poetics / by Gleckman, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Predestination, single and double in Christian history -- The Reformation and the revival of double predestination thought -- Double predestination in early English drama -- Double predestination in Shakespearean comedy and tragedy: The merry wives of Windsor and Macbeth -- Double predestination and assurance in Shakespear: Macbeth and Twelfth night -- Conversion in Protestant and Catholic thought in the Reformation -- The Protestant conversion into marraige -- The Shakespearean conversion paradigm: Much ado about nothing -- English Protestant conversion in A midsummer night's dream -- Apostasy in The winter's tale -- The three components of free will in Plato and Aristotle: Thumos, reason, and deliberative reason -- The free will in Augustine, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation -- Free will and free conscience in Hamlet -- Hamlet and the free will in action -- The player's speech.…”