Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare

R. S. White is Australian Professorial Fellow, Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia, and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. Among his other books are Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996), Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2008), Pacifism in English Poetry: Minstrels of Peace (2008) and John Keats: A Literary Life (2010) which has been reissued in paperback. He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsA Note on quotationsIntroduction: Keats's Shakespeare: Shakespearean Keats1. The Importance of Reading Shakespeare2. Hazlitt and Keats's attitudes to Shakespeare3. Keats's readings of Shakespeare's comedies4. 'Shakespearean hieroglyphics' in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest5. Hamlet and Macbeth6. Tragedies of Love7. King Lear8. Keats and TragegyConclusion: Keats as a reader of ShakespeareNotesBibliographyIndex