Birds and other creatures in Renaissance literature : Shakespeare, Descartes, and animal studies / by Bach, Rebecca Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: inequality for all -- Feathers, wings, and souls -- The creaturely continuum in A midsummer night's dream -- The lively creaturely/object world of The rape of Lucrece -- Falstaff and "the modern constitution" -- The winter's tale's pedestrian and elite creatures -- Conclusion: human grandiosity/ human responsibility.…”

Shakespearean resurrection : the art of almost raising the dead / by Benson, Sean, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's art of almost raising the dead -- The comedies: recognition and quasi resurrection -- Failed resurrections in Romeo and Juliet and Othello -- Cordelia's quasi resurrection and Shakespeare's revision -- The limits of stage resurrection in Pericles and Cymbeline -- Raising the dead in The winter's tale and The tempest -- Appendix: mock resurrections.…”
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The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / by Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the belly of Sheol -- "Strange introversions": Newman, mature conversion, and the poetics of purgatory -- George Eliot's Winter tales -- The bachelor's purgatory: arrested development and the progress of shades -- Odd women and eccentric plotting: maturity, modernism, and Woolf's Victorian retrospection -- Coda: descent and tradition.…”

Bloom's how to write about Shakespeare's romances / by Davis, Suanna H.

Table of Contents: “…Series introduction -- Volume introduction -- How to write a good essay -- How to write about Shakespeare's romances -- Troilus and Cressida -- Measure for measure -- All's well that ends well -- Pericles, prince of Tyre -- Cymbeline -- The winter's tale -- The tempest -- The two noble kinsmen.…”
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The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / by Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the belly of Sheol -- "Strange introversions": Newman, mature conversion, and the poetics of purgatory -- George Eliot's Winter tales -- The bachelor's purgatory: arrested development and the progress of shades -- Odd women and eccentric plotting: maturity, modernism, and Woolf's Victorian retrospection -- Coda: descent and tradition.…”
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Staging harmony : music and religious change in late medieval and early modern English drama / by Brokaw, Katherine Steele, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Sacred, sensual, and social music: wisdom and the Digby Mary Magdalene -- Musical hypocrisy: the plays of John Bale -- Learning to sing: the plays of Nicholas Udall -- Propaganda and psalms: early Elizabethan drama -- Sound effects: Doctor Faustus -- Arts to enchant: The Tempest and The Winter's Tale.…”
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Shakespeare's nature : from cultivation to culture / by Scott, Charlotte

Table of Contents: “…Art and nature in The Winter's Tale -- Prospero's husbandry and the cultivation of anxiety -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Shakespeare in hindsight : counterfactual thinking and Shakespearean tragedy / by Khan, Amir (Managing editor)

Table of Contents: “…My kingdom for a ghost : counterfactual thinking and Hamlet -- Reversing good and evil : counterfactual thinking and King Lear -- Staging passivity : counterfactual thinking and Macbeth -- Reversing time : counterfactual thinking and The winter's tale -- 'Why indeed did I marry?' : counterfactual thinking and Othello.…”
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Shakespeare in hindsight : counterfactual thinking and Shakespearean tragedy / by Khan, Amir (Managing editor)

Table of Contents: “…My kingdom for a ghost: counterfactual thinking and Hamlet -- Reversing good and evil: counterfactual thinking and King Lear -- Staging passivity: counterfactual thinking and Macbeth -- Reversing time: counterfactual thinking and The winter's tale -- 'Why indeed did I marry?': counterfactual thinking and Othello.…”
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Love against substitution : seventeenth-century English literature and the meaning of marriage / by Song, Eric B., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Beguiling love in the Amoretti and the 1590 Faerie queene -- Jealousy against substitution in Othello and The winter's tale -- Gondibert and the biopolitics of marriage -- Love against succession in Paradise lost -- Lucy Hutchinson and the imperfection of Christian marriage -- From remarriage to tragic fungibility : Behn's The forc'd marriage and Oroonoko.…”
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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion. by Porter, Chloe

Table of Contents: “…Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.…”
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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion / by Porter, Chloe

Table of Contents: “…Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.…”
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The comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare. Complete and unabridged, with notes and glossary. by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Table of Contents: “…Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The winter's tale. Notes. Glossary.--[v.3.] Troilus and Cressida. …”

Sovereign amity : figures of friendship in Shakespearean contexts / by Shannon, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: "soveraigne mistris amitie" -- The early modern politics of likeness: sovereign reader/subjects and listening kings -- Chaste associations in Cary's Tragedy of Mariam: sexual mixtures, same-sex friendship, and the genders of integrity -- Professing friendship: erotic prerogatives and "human title" in The two noble kinsmen -- Ungoverned states: Friendship, mignonnerie, and the private monarch -- The false prince and the true subject: friendship and public institutions in Edward II and The Henriad -- Friendship's offices: true speech and artificial bodies in The winter's tale -- Epilogue: Magna civitas; Magna solitudo: bureaucratic forms and civic conditions.…”

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.…”

Broken harmony : Shakespeare and the politics of music / by Ortiz, Joseph M., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Titus Andronicus and the production of musical meaning -- "Her speech is nothing" : mad speech and the female musician -- Teaching music : the rule of allegory -- Impolitic noise : resisting Orpheus from Julius Caesar to The tempest -- Shakespeare's idolatry : psalms and hornpipes in The winter's tale -- The reforming of reformation : Milton's A maske.…”
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Uncanny fidelity : recognizing Shakespeare in twenty-first-century film and television / by Newlin, James

Table of Contents: “…Uncanny Reception: Counting and Recounting in Manchester by the Sea and The Winter's Tale -- Coda: Recognizing Shakespeare as Faithful Subjects -- Notes -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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William Shakespeare / by Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Language: Macbeth, Richard II, Henry IV -- Desire: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night -- Law: The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida -- Nothing: Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus -- Value: King Lear, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra -- Nature: As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest.…”

Pretty creatures : children and fiction in the English Renaissance / by Witmore, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Ut pueritas poesis : the child and fiction in the English Renaissance -- Animated children in Elizabeth's coronation pageant of 1559 -- Phatic metadrama and the touch of irony in English children's theater -- Mamillius, The winter's tale, and the impetus of fiction -- The lies children tell : counterfeiting victims and witnesses in early modern English witchcraft trials and possessions.…”
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Re-humanising Shakespeare : literary humanism, wisdom and modernity / by Mousley, Andy, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Denaturing human nature -- Questioning the human : Hamlet -- Emptying the human : Othello -- Ironising the human : The merchant of Venice -- Historicising the human, humanising the historical : I Henry IV -- How to live -- Ethics : Macbeth -- Only human : Coriolanus -- Humility : Love's labour's lost -- Love : As you like it -- Hope : The winter's tale.…”
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