John Joughin is Senior lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire. He is editor of Shakespeare and National Culture(1997).

• List of contributors General editor's preface Foreword 1. Philosophical Shakespeares: an introduction 2. How many children did she have? 3. On the need for a differentiated theory of (early) modern subjects 4. We were never early modern 5. Violence and philosophy: Nathaniel Merriman, A.W. Schlegel and Jack Cade 6. Reading Shakespeare with intensity: A commentary on some lines from Nietzsche's Ecce Homo 7. Shakespeare's monster of nothing Bibliography

John Joughin is Senior lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire. He is editor of Shakespeare and National Culture(1997).

• List of contributors General editor's preface Foreword 1. Philosophical Shakespeares: an introduction 2. How many children did she have? 3. On the need for a differentiated theory of (early) modern subjects 4. We were never early modern 5. Violence and philosophy: Nathaniel Merriman, A.W. Schlegel and Jack Cade 6. Reading Shakespeare with intensity: A commentary on some lines from Nietzsche's Ecce Homo 7. Shakespeare's monster of nothing Bibliography

John Joughin is Senior lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire. He is editor of Shakespeare and National Culture(1997).

• List of contributors General editor's preface Foreword 1. Philosophical Shakespeares: an introduction 2. How many children did she have? 3. On the need for a differentiated theory of (early) modern subjects 4. We were never early modern 5. Violence and philosophy: Nathaniel Merriman, A.W. Schlegel and Jack Cade 6. Reading Shakespeare with intensity: A commentary on some lines from Nietzsche's Ecce Homo 7. Shakespeare's monster of nothing Bibliography