Table of Contents

Foreword

Andrew Cutrofello

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Moshe Gold and Sandor Goodhart

1:A Meditation

Richard A. Cohen

2:Lear’s “Darker Purpose”

Sandor Goodhart

3:Girard and Levinas as Readers of King Lear

Ann W. Astell

4:Theology, Phenomenology, and the Divine in King Lear

Kent R. Lehnhof

5:Investment, Return, Alterity, and The Merchant of Venice

Geoffrey Baker

6:Traces, Faces, and Ghosts

Hilaire Kallendorf and Claire Katz

7:From Horror to Solitude to Maternity

Steven Shankman

8:The Frustration of Desire and the Weakness of Power in Venus and Adonis

Sean Lawrence

9:Ethical Ambiguity of the Maternal in Shakespeare’s First Romances

Donald R. Wehrs

10:Culinary Skepticism in As You Like It and Montaigne’s “Of Experience”

David B. Goldstein

11:Staging Humanity in As You Like It and Pirkei Avot

Moshe Gold

Works Cited

Contributors

Index