Shakespeare and the interpretive tradition

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Includes bibliographical references

Contents

Shakespeare and the limits of language / Anne Barton -- The avoidance of love : a reading of King Lear / Stanley Cavell -- The early scenes of Macbeth / Harry Berger Jr. -- Hamlet's ear / Philippa Berry -- 'What is it you would see?' : Hamlet and the conscience of the theatre / Brent M. Cohen -- Hamlet's special providence / Alan Sinfield -- 'Preposterous conclusions' : Eros, Enargeia, and the composition of Othello / Joel B. Altman -- The merchant of Venice and the possibilities of historical criticism / Walter Cohen -- Name and fame : Shakespeare's Coriolanus / D.J. Gordon -- Prospero's art / Karol Berger -- Secrecy and gossip in Twelfth night / John Kerrigan -- 'You speak a language that I understand not' : the rhetoric of animation in The winter's tale / Lynn Enterline -- Out of the matrix : Shakespeare and race-writing / Jonathan Crewe -- Reading the early modern text / Marion Trousdale -- The politics of romantic Shakespeare criticism : Germany, England, France / Jonathan Bate -- Elocution and Shakespeare : an episode in the history of literary taste / Paul C. Edwards