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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Lectures on Shakespeare / by Auden, W. H. 1907-1973

Table of Contents: “…Henry VI, parts one, two, and three -- Richard III -- The comedy of errors and The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labour's lost -- Romeo and Juliet -- A midsummer night's dream -- The taming of the shrew, King John, and Richard II -- The merchant of Venice -- Sonnets -- Henry IV, parts one and two, and Henry V -- Much ado about nothing -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Julius Caesar -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- Hamlet -- Troilus and Cressida -- All's well that ends well -- Measure for measure -- Othello -- Macbeth -- King Lear -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Coriolanus --Timon of Athens -- Pericles and Cymbeline -- The winter's tale -- The tempest -- Concluding lecture.…”

Shakespeare's daughters / by Hamilton, Sharon, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The father as inept or able mentor : Romeo and Juliet and The tempest -- Daughters who rebel : Hermia (A midsummer night's dream), Jessica (The merchant of Venice), and Desdemona (Othello) -- Daughters who acquiesce : Hero (Much ado about nothing), Lavinia (Titus Andronicus), and Opelia (Hamlet) -- Plighted cunning, playing the good girl role : The taming of the shrew and King Lear -- Daughters who act in their fathers' stead : Portia (The merchant of Venice), Viola (Twelfth night), and Rosalind (As you like it) -- Daughters who forgive and heal : Marina (Pericles), Perdita (The winter's tale), and Cordelia (King Lear).…”

Monsters /

Table of Contents: “…Unrelated (04:49) -- Save (04:50) -- Underwater Dancer (06:25) -- A Day in Town (05:06) -- Monsters (05:28) -- Home (05:00) -- Wrapped (05:16) -- Inside the Field (05:38) -- Winter's Tale (04:46) -- Cynosure (08:00) -- Lifted (05:45).…”
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Understanding Isak Dinesen / by Brantly, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for editions used -- Chronology -- Chapter 1: Understanding Isak Dinesen -- Chapter 2: Seven gothic tales -- Chapter 3: Out of Africa -- Chapter 4: Winter's tales -- Chapter 5: Last tales -- Chapter 6: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.…”

Shakespeare's schoolroom : rhetoric, discipline, emotion / by Enterline, Lynn, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…: Transferring Woe in Hamlet, The Rape of Lucrece, and The Winter's Tale.…”

Members of his body : Shakespeare, Paul, and a theology of nonmonogamy / by Stockton, Will

Table of Contents: “…Marriage and the body of Christ -- Neither male nor female -- Paul in Ephesus: self and sexual difference in The Comedy of Errors -- Portia's Pauline perversion: The Merchant of Venice and Romans 1 -- The works of the flesh -- Chaste impossibilities: adultery and individuation in Othello -- The ecology of adultery: flesh, blood, and stone in The Winter's Tale -- Why (again) are the utopians monogamous?…”

Second death : theatricalities of the soul in Shakespeare's drama / by Sherman, Donovan

Table of Contents: “…Mourning the Present: The Elegy of The Winter's Tale -- Conclusion: The Semi-Theatrical Prejudice -- Notes -- Index.…”
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The figure of a man being swallowed by a fish / by Weiner, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; One; Rock Creek (II); Two; "The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish"; Florida: Schoolboy on Break; First Walk after Cancer; Things To Do While You're Here; Winter Commute; The Winter's Tale; Rock Creek; Hikmet: Çankiri Prison, 1938; Three; Cyclops; Notes.…”
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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, love and service / by Schalkwyk, David

Table of Contents: “…"Thou serv'st me, and I'll love thee" : love and service in Shakespeare's world -- Performance and imagination : The taming of the shrew and A midsummer night's dream -- "His man, unbound" : The comedy of errors and The tempest -- "More than a steward" : the sonnets, Twelfth night, and Timon of Athens -- "Office and devotion" : Henry IV Parts I and 2, the sonnets, and Antony and Cleopatra -- "I am your own forever" : King Lear and Othello -- "Something more than man" : The winter's tale.…”
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The aesthetics of service in Early Modern England / by Rivlin, Elizabeth J., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The aesthetics of service -- Shakespeare's apprenticeship: performing service in the Comedy of errors and The two gentlemen of Verona -- Prose fiction and the mobile servant: Nashe's The unfortunate traveller -- "Play the shoemaker": craft and commerce in Deloney's The gentle craft and Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday -- "Iterate the work": The alchemist and Ben Jonson's Labors of service -- Tragicomic service: The winter's tale and The tempest.…”
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The aesthetics of service in Early Modern England / by Rivlin, Elizabeth J., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The aesthetics of service -- Shakespeare's apprenticeship: performing service in the Comedy of errors and The two gentlemen of Verona -- Prose fiction and the mobile servant: Nashe's The unfortunate traveller -- "Play the shoemaker": craft and commerce in Deloney's The gentle craft and Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday -- "Iterate the work": The alchemist and Ben Jonson's Labors of service -- Tragicomic service: The winter's tale and The tempest.…”
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Prefaces to Shakespeare / by Tanner, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Pericles ; Cymbeline ; The winter's tale ; The tempest.…”

Shakespeare, dissent, and the Cold War / by Thomas, Alfred, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Culture and Dissent in Shakespeare's England and Cold War Europe -- "The Heart of My Mystery": The Hidden Language of Dissent in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Grigori Kozintsev's Film Gamlet -- "A Dog's Obeyed in Office": Subverting Authority in Shakespeare's King Lear and Grigori Kozintsev's Korol' Lir -- "Faith, Here's an Equivocator": Language, Resistance, and the Limits of Authority in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Tom Stoppard's Cahoot's Macbeth -- "In Fair Bohemia": The Politics of Utopia in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Ingeborg Bachmann's Bohemia Lies of the Sea".…”

Shakespeare and the uses of comedy / by Bryant, J. A. 1919-1999

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's exploration of the human comedy -- The comedy of errors -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labor's lost -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- The taming of the shrew -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Much ado about nothing -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- Troilus and Cressida -- All's well that ends well and Measure for measure -- Cymbeline and The winter's tale -- The tempest.…”
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Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage / by Forman, Valerie

Table of Contents: “…Stasis and insularity in The merchant of Venice and Twelfth night -- The voyage out: Pericles -- Poverty, surplus value, and theatrical investment in The winter's tale -- Captivity and "free" trade: Fletcher's The island princess and English commerce in the East Indies in the early 1600s -- Balance, circulation, and equity in the "prosperous voyage" of The renegado -- Webster's The devil's law-case, the limits of tragicomic redemption, and tragicomedy's afterlife.…”
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The cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan : the global vision of a Turkish filmmaker / by Diken, Bülent, Gilloch, Graeme, Hammond, Craig A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The origin of imagines : unravelling Cocoon -- Our town : homesickness in The small town and Clouds of May -- Distant : a winter's tale -- Climates and problem of nihilism : the missing season -- Three monkeys and the oblivion of the spectral fourth -- Once upon a time in Anatolia : Ante rem, revenge, hinterland and detection -- Winter sleep : disappearance as social topology -- Conclusion : Ceylan's aesthetic politics.…”
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Monuments and literary posterity in early modern drama / by Chalk, Brian

Table of Contents: “…"Mocking life": preemptive commemoration in The Winter's Tale -- 5. Fletcher's future: dynasty and collaborative posterity in Henry VIII -- Coda: what they hath left us -- Select bibliography -- Index.…”

The rhetoric of the body from Ovid to Shakespeare / by Enterline, Lynn, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…"Your speak a language that I understand not": the rhetoric of animation in The winter's tale -- Notes -- Index.…”
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