Lowell Gallagher is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.James Kearney is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Julia Reinhard Lupton is a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard LuptonSection I: Key Words1. Shakespeare and Role Playing Tzachi Zamir2. HabitJ.K. Barret3. AcknowledgmentSarah Beckwith 4. Judgment Kevin Curran5. Way of LifeJames Kuzner 6. EntertainmentJeffrey Knapp 7. CurseBjörn Quiring 8. CareSheiba Kian Kaufman Section II: Extended Encounters9. Shakespeare’s Now: Some Philosophical Perspectives on King Lear and The Winter’s TaleSanford Budick10. Hegel with Hamlet: Questions of Method Anselm Haverkamp11. Bliss Unrevealed: The "Trial" in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Paul KottmanAfterword by Charles McNulty, Theatre Critic, Los Angeles TimesWorks CitedContributorsIndex

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