Russ McDonald is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has written extensively on Shakespeare and early modern literature and culture, most recently in Shakespeare and the Art of Language (2001) and The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (Second Edition, 2001).

• Preface xAcknowledgments xivPart I Authorship 11 Looney and the Oxfordians 4S. SchoenbaumPart II New Criticism 152 The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness 19Cleanth Brooks3 ‘‘Honest’’ in Othello 35William Empson4 ‘‘Introductory’’ Chapter About the Tragedies 50Wolfgang Clemen5 The ‘‘New Criticism’’ and King Lear 63William R. KeastPart III Dramatic Kinds 896 The Argument of Comedy 93Northrop Frye7 Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories 100A. P. Rossiter8 The Saturnalian Pattern 116C. L. Barber9 The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies 125Maynard MackPart IV The 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure 14910 Reflections on the Sentimentalist’s Othello 152Barbara Everett11 Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet 164Harry Levin12 King Lear or Endgame 174Jan Kott13 The Cheapening of the Stage 191Anne Righter [Barton]14 How Not to Murder Caesar 209Sigurd BurckhardtPart V Reader-Response Criticism 22115 On the Value of Hamlet 225Stephen Booth16 Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V 245Norman RabkinPart VI Textual Criticism and Bibliography 26517 The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare 269Fredson Bowers18 Revising Shakespeare 280Gary Taylor19 Narratives About Printed Shakespeare Texts: ‘‘Foul Papers’’ and ‘‘Bad Quartos’’ 296Paul WerstinePart VII Psychoanalytic Criticism 31920 ‘‘Anger’s my meat’’: Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus 323Janet Adelman21 The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear 338Stanley Cavell22 To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III 353René Girard23 What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis 365Harry Berger, Jr.24 The Turn of the Shrew 399Joel FinemanPart VIII Historicism and New Historicism 41725 The Cosmic Background 422E. M. W. Tillyard26 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V 435Stephen Greenblatt27 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies 458Jean E. Howard28 ‘‘Shaping Fantasies’’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture 481Louis Adrian MontrosePart IX Materialist Criticism 51129 Shakespeare’s Theater: Tradition and Experiment 515Robert Weimann30 King Lear (ca. 1605–1606) and Essentialist Humanism 535Jonathan Dollimore31 Give an Account of Shakespeare and Education, Showing Why You Think They Are Effective and What You Have Appreciated About Them. Support Your Comments with Precise References 547Alan SinfieldPart X Feminist Criticism 56532 Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism 570L. T. Fitz [Linda Woodbridge]33 ‘‘I wooed thee with my sword’’: Shakespeare’s Tragic Paradigms 591Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether34 The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics 606Lynda E. Boose35 Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies 633Catherine BelseyPart XI Studies in Gender and Sexuality 65136 ‘‘This that you call love’’: Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello 655Gayle Greene37 The Performance of Desire 669Stephen Orgel38 The Secret Sharer 684Bruce R. Smith39 The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy 704Valerie TraubPart XII Performance Criticism 72740 Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre 732Gerald Eades Bentley41 The Critical Revolution 745J. L. Styan42 William Shakespeare’s Romeo þ Juliet : Everything’s Nice in America? 750Barbara Hodgdon43 Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism 762William B. WorthenPart XIII Postcolonial Shakespeare 77744 Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest 781Francis Barker and Peter Hulme45 Sexuality and Racial Difference 794Ania Loomba46 Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest 817Meredith Anne SkuraPart XIV Reading Closely 84547 Shakespeare’s Prose 848Jonas A. Barish48 The Play of Phrase and Line 861George T. Wright49 Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric 880Patricia ParkerIndex 908

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