AARON (character in TA), 207-209, 229n19
ADAM (character in AY)
as full of pure love, 291
as teacher to young Orlando, 276
as “venerable burden”, 277
Duke Senior’s home opened to Orlando and, 247
forbidden fruit and, 248
needing shelter, 246
on fleeing Oliver’s manor in, 204
Orlando and, 243
Orlando’s arrival carrying, 255
Orlando’s blood offered to, 245
Shakespeare’s portrayal of, 264-265
ADAM (biblical)
analogy between Cordelia and Christ, and, 107
forbidden fruit and, 248
name appearing before Eve, 294n39
“old,” 204
penalty as Eve, 249
ADELMAN, Janet, 46, 82n11, 105n43, 215, 231n28, 232n37, 235n61 and 70
ADONIS (character in VA), 191-192, 199
as early sexual harasser, 185
as object, 188
as statue, 196-197
erotic relationship with Venus, 11
transformations in portrayals of, 189-191
transformed into flower, 192-194, 198
Venus carrying, 186
Venus’s love of, 195-196
Venus’s seduction of 187
ADORNO, Theodor, 124
on Jews and Jewishness, 140
on The Odyssey as “basic text of European civilization,” 127, 129, 131, 138, 142-143
on writing poetry after Auschwitz, 165-166, 168n29, 169n30
AENEAS, 264
AESOP, 20
AGNON, S. Y., 21
ALBANY, Duke of (character in KL), 39, 80
departure of, 40
Edgar and, 100
equality with Cornwall, 88
“Fall and cease!” comment, 48
King Lear’s residency with, 92
on King Lear’s daughters, 96-97
ALCIDES, 131
ALLECTO, 210
ALLEN, Michael J. B., 290n19-20
ALONSO (character in The Tempest), 241
ALVAREZ, Leo Paul S. de, 233n45
AMATA, 210
ANCHISES, 264
ANDREWS, Julie, 80-81; see also VON TRAPP
ANTIOCHUS (character in P), 212–218
ANTONIO (character in MV), 124, 141
Bassanio’s attempts to secure capital from, 132-133, 135-137
Salerio and Solanio’s interrogation of, 131-132
Shylock’s speculation on, 129
APOLLINIUS, 233n44
APPOLONIUS of Rhodes, 130
AQUINAS, ST. THOMAS, 206, 226n5
ARBERY, Glen C., 221, 225, 230n25, 234n57, 235n66
ARIEL (character in The Tempest), 241
ARMENGAUD, Françoise, 103n4
ARTHUR (character in King John), 203
ATALANTA, 191
AUDREY (character in AY), 280
AUGUSTINE, 205, 226n5, 228n11-12
BALTHAZAR, 140-141
BANQUO (character in M), 14n12, 156, 158
apparition as decisive experience for
Macbeth, 55, 149-150, 174, 241
Macbeth’s fright in seeing, 8, 30, 55, 149
Macbeth’s statement to hired murderer of, 155
statements by, 159
BASSANIO (character in MV), 130, 132, 135-137
BATE, Jonathan, 191, 202n35, 220, 227n7, 230n28, 231n29, 232n43, 233n50
BATES, Jennifer Ann, 14n9
BATESON, Gregory, 104n19
BAWD (character in P), 215, 233n45
BECKWITH, Sarah, 289n13
BELSEY, Catherine, 188, 194, 201n19, 202n46 and 56
BERGER, Peter, 116
BERGO, Bettina, 168n25
on the comic, 187-189, 201n14 and 21
Levinas and philosophy of, 18, 21, 30, 188
BERMAN, Jeffrey, 152, 167n12-13
BERNASCONI, Robert, 37n21
BETTERIDGE, Thomas, 204, 226n4, 227n7, 228n8, 234n57, 235n68
BEVINGTON, David, 287n3, 289n13
BICKERSTETH, Geoffrey L., 107, 119n1
BLANCHOT, Maurice, 18, 30, 171
BLOOM, Harold, 103n2, 104n25, 165, 168n28, 291n22, 296n63
admiration for Shakespeare, 21, 35n8-9
on Lear as philosopher king, 85
on pagan nihilism in King Lear, 90
on Rosalind, 278-279
BOER, Theodore de, 37n21
BOLINGBROKE (character in RII), 40, 43
BORGES, Jorge Luis, 39, 43, 82n2
BOTTICELLI, Sandro, 199
BOULT (character in P), 215–217, 233n45
BOYARIN, Jonathan, 126-127, 144n6
BOYLE, Marjorie O’Rourke, 228n7, 229n18
BOYLE, Nicholas, 86, 103n8, 104n13, 229
BRABANTIO (character in O), 44, 73
BRADFORD, Alan Taylor, 289–290n17,
BREU, Jörg, 286
BRODY, Jules, 252
BROOKE, S. A., 278
BROWN, Guy Story, 86, 103n1 and 7
BROWN, Huntington, 187, 201n16
BRUNO, Giordano, 206
BUCHLER, Justus, 36n14
BUSHNELL, Rebecca W., 229n17
CALVIN, Jean, 227n6, 228n8, 232n40
CAMUS, Albert, 24, 28, 37n22-23
CARAFFA, Cardinal, 251
CARLYLE, Thomas, 35n9
CASSIRER, Ernst, 161-162
CAVELL, Stanley, 46, 82n11, 105n43, 187, 189, 201n18, 287n4
CAYGILL, Howard, 8, 14n10, 13, and 14, 168n22, 296n71
CELIA (character in AY), 245, 282
becomes Rosalind’s teacher, 277, 284, 296n57
joking with Rosalind, 249
priest role of, 280
Rosalind’s opening of purse to feed, 247
CERIMON (character in P), 213-215
CERVANTES, 37n28, 49, 86, 189, 219
CHAMBERS, Robert William, 107, 119n1
CHARIKLEIA, 219
CHARLES the Wrestler (character in AY), 253
CHEKHOV (Tchekhov), Anton, 37n28, 49, 83n26, 189
CHEW, Samuel, 264, 285, 289n15, 297n80
analogy between Cordelia and, 97, 107-108, 182
as Messiah, 173
birth of, 219
death of, 98
lions associated with, 208
revelation of, 116-117
self-offering sacrifices of, 98
teachings, 229n18
CLEON (character in P), 214-215
COLE, Howard, 257n22
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, 2, 23
CORDELIA (character in KL), 103
as mother, 81
“disincarnation” of Lear and, 9-10, 45-46
expulsion of, 91–97
genesis of time and tragedy in life of, 88-91
in role of Christ, 107-108
invading army of, 97
Lear as “foolish” and, 47, 90-91
Lear’s death and, 9, 40-42, 177
passion of, 97-102
relationship with Lear, 73-74, 76-79, 81, 86-87, 112-115, 181
signifying ethical transcendence, 69-71, 109-118
CORIN (character in AY), 245
CORIOLANUS (character in Coriolanus), 203
CORNELIUS (character in CY), 224-225
CORNFORD, Frances, 186
CORNWALL, Lord of (character in KL), 40, 88, 92, 94-96, 181
COULON, Christian, 251, 258n33
COUSINS, A. D., 185-186, 194, 198, 200n5, 201n10, 202n43, 50, 53, and 55
CRAIG, Meghan, 158-159, 168n16, and 18-21
CUTROFELLO, Andrew, 151-152, 167n7 and 8
CYMBELINE (character in CY), 218-220, 222-225
DERRIDA, Jacques, 14n9, 120n10, 124, 143n1, 144n5, 147, 167n1, 168n24, 296n56
critique of Levinas, 125-126, 142
Jewish sources and, 36n19
on ethics, 135
DESCARTES, René, 17, 61, 256n6
DESDEMONA (character in O), 44, 72, 74-75
DIAMOND, Josephine, 143n1
DIANA (character in P), 218
DICKENS, Charles, 37n28, 49, 189
DICKEY, Stephen, 232n41
DINAH, 293n36
DIONYZA (character in P), 203-204, 206, 215-216, 218
DIXON, Joe, 281
DOEBLER, John, 186, 190, 201n9, 28, and 31
DOENGES, Nicholas, 183n1
DON QUIXOTE, 33
DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor, 18, 20-21
Levinas and, 37n28, 49, 69, 101
literary commentary on, 25
probing of humanity of man, 32, 34, 281
DUERDEN, Richard, 143n1
DUKE SENIOR (character in AL), 246-247, 249, 255, 257n18, 264-265, 276
DUMM, Thomas, 39, 46-47, 71, 82n3 and 10
DUNCAN (character in M), 150, 155-157, 172
DUSINBERRE, Juliet, 257n14, 19 and 20, 280 296n66, 67, and 70
EDGAR (character in KL), 39, 47, 78, 80, 91,105n43
as apocalyptic figure, 9, 97, 99-102
as “nothing,” 90
as Poor Tom, 94-97, 181-182, 183n6
expulsion of, 91
killing of Edmund by, 40
relationship with Gloucester, 87
unconditional love of, 74
EDGECOMBE, Rodney Stenning, 290
EDMUND (character in KL), 74, 96-97, 99, 100, 183n6, 203, 206
betrayal of Gloucester, 95
Edgar and, 88-89, 97, 100, 102
genesis of time and tragedy for, 88-89
Gloucester and, 91
killing of, 40
nature’s law as self-promotion and, 204
on Lear’s intended division of the kingdom, 88
ELIEZER, Rabbi, 288n10
ELTON, William R., 108, 119n1 and 3
ENGLE, Lars, 255n1, 256n12, 258n44
ERASMUS, 207, 209, 219-220, 223, 228n7, 229n18, 231n36, 232n40, 233n48 and 51
EURIPIDES, 221
EURYALE, 157
EVANS, John, 287n3
EXTON (character in R2), 40
EZEKIEL, 174
FALSTAFF (Shakespearean character), 35
FEUERBACH, Ludwig, 16
FICINO, Marsilio, 206
FLAUBERT, Gustave, 24
FOOL (character in KL), 40, 47, 68, 75, 78, 87, 90-91, 93, 114, 180
FORTIN, René E., 116, 120n25 and 26
FRAME, Donald M., 252
FRASER, Russell, 248
FREUD, Sigmund, 71
FRIPP, Edgar Innes, 107, 119n1
GALATEA, 196
GANYMEDE (character in AL), 253, 277, 279-280, 282, 284, 286
GAON OF VILNA, 261, 267-268, 274, 293n34
GARDNER, Helen, 247
GENET, Jean, 24
GILL, Christopher, 145n13
GIRARD, René, 72, 83n16, 90-91, 100, 102-103, 104n19, 105n42
compared to Levinas, 85
on acquisitive mimesis, 88
on “bond” and commandment, 87
on expulsions in King Lear, 91-97
on function of the law, 86
on metaphysical desire, 88-89
on mimeticism, 88-89
on pharmakos, 102
on Satan, 100-101
on Shakespeare’s “theater of envy,” 85
on sibling rivalry, 9
on the monstrous double, 97
on the Passion accounts of the Gospels, 98-99
GIRGUS, Sam B., 297n79
GLOUCESTER (character in KL), 44, 69, 75, 87, 92-93, 114, 180-181, 183n6
as version of Oedipus, 96
blindness of, 78, 81, 92, 95, 99, 181
on gods turning against humans, 76
on loving, 91
siding with Lear, 94-95
sons of, 88, 91, 96-97, 99-101
GOD, 64, 115, 148 allusions to in KL, 85-86, 99, 102-103
allusions to in M, 148
allusions to in MV, 139
as real and concrete, 25
Borges on Shakespeare and, 39
Calvin and, 227n6
death of Christ as Lamb of, 98
Derrida on, 135
Erasmus and, 233
face of, 166
fear of, 261
humans in image and likeness of, 87
Jews as chosen people of, 126
Levinas on, 49, 90, 107, 109-110, 116-119, 120n12 and 28, 121n29 and 31, 153-154, 160, 164-166, 285, 295n54
love for, 205-206
man’s return to, 127
messianic time and, 272
Moses and, 165
name of, 64
natural catastrophes and, 93
Orlando and, 248
pray to, 294n42
punishment by, 294n40
responsibility to, 270-271
Ricoeur and, 86
Rosenzweig on, 173-174
tradition from Sinai and, 293n36
witness to, 27
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, 21, 37n28, 49, 195
GOGOL, Nikolaï Vassilievitch, 32, 37n28, 49, 189
GOLDING, Arthur, 190-191
GONERIL (character in KL), 112
as Hitler’s daughter 182
corpse of, 98
death of, 40
false face of, 114
“filial ingratitude” of, 68
genesis of time and tragedy and, 88-90
Lear disowned by, 45
letter of to Edmund, 100
relationship with Lear, 45, 74-76, 92, 178, 180-181
rivalry with sister, 40, 70, 97, 99
GOTTLIEB, Derek, 287n4
GRATIANO (character in MV), 128, 130, 136
GREENBLATT, Stephen, 42, 47, 73, 75-77, 140, 142, 230n28
GROSS, Kenneth, 287n5
GUARINI, Giovanni Battista, 211
GUILDENSTERN (character in H), 175-176
HALL, John, 42
HALPERN, Richard, 196
HAMLET (character in H), 3, 13n3, 15, 35n9, 82, 104n19, 177, 255, 289n13
death in, 40-41
irony in, 174-175
Levinas on, 8, 55, 151-153, 174, 179
otherness of, 176
reflection of Shakespearean tragedy, 8
responsibility and, 176-177
HANDELMAN, Susan, 36n19
HARBAGE, Alfred, 21, 35n10, 103
HARRIS, Jonathan Gil, 287n4
HART, Jonathan, 198
HATTAWAY, Michael, 283-284
HAZLITT, William, 265
HEALY, Margaret, 233n45
HEGEL, Georg W. F., 1-2, 14n9, 16-17, 21, 30, 57-58, 171-172
concrete universality of, 33-34
Derrida on, 125
on suffering, 169n30
HEIDEGGER, Martin, 1, 14n9, 16, 18, 21, 23, 28, 34-35n3, 161, 172, 199-200
art and, 23
Dasein, 142
Levinas on, 34-35n3, 50, 54-56, 153, 199-200
on authenticity, 206
on “being-toward-death,” 28, 56
on philosophy and art, 35n3
on possibility of impossibility, 152
romanticism of, 188
Sorge, 182
HELIODORUS, 219
HERCULES, 130-131
HERMIONE (character in Winter’s Tale), 118
HIPPOMENES, 191
HOGAN, Patrick Colm, 203, 226n1, 233n52, 234n55
HOLBROOK, Peter, 253
HORATIO (character in H), 13n3, 15, 176-177
HORKHEIMER, Max, 124
on Jews in the circulation sector, 140
on Odyssey 127, 129, 131, 138, 142-143
on principle of capitalist economy, 129
on risk of hazarding, 131
HOWE, Nicholas, 126
HUGO, Victor, 21
HUSSERL, Edmund, 1, 16, 29, 37n26, 60
JACHIMO (character in CY), 222, 224-225, 234n59
JAMES, son of Mary Queen of Scots, 42
JAQUES (character in AY), 288n11
as skeptic, 253-254
deer and, 244
encounters with Rosalind, 12
Joe Dixon’s performance of, 281
meal and, 244-248
Rosalind as teacher for, 281-282, 284-285
“seven ages” speech, 254-255, 257n18, 259-268, 272, 274-275, 277-278, 280, 286, 289n13, 290n17, 19, and 21, 291n22, 296n69
song and, 244-245
tone used by, 271
JAYNE, Sears, 113
JESSICA (character in MV), 127, 130, 133
JOHN OF GAUNT (character in R2), 43
JONES, Martin, 249
JOSHUA, 130
JOYCE, James, 125
JULIET (character in Romeo and Juliet), 151, 167n5
JUNO, 210
KAHN, Coppélia, 186
KAHN, Victoria, 251
KANT, Emmanuel, 1-2, 16-17, 57-58, 60, 162-163, 195
KANTOROWICZ, Ernst, 43
KASTAN, David Scott, 288n11
KATHERINE (character in Taming of the Shrew), 241
KENT (character in KL), 39-40, 45, 69-70, 76-78, 93, 97, 114
banished, 90
Gloucester and, 88
love for Lear of, 91
on life’s futility, 47
protest of Lear’s decision as evil, 90
relationship with Lear, 80, 87, 92, 113
wishes of, 100
KIERNAN, Pauline, 196
KLAUSE, John, 187
KNOWLES, James, 233n45
KRISTEVA, Julia, 220, 231n33, 297n79
LAERTES (character in H), 176-177
LATINUS, 210
LAVINIA (character in TAN), 207-209, 219
LEAR (character in KL), 9-10, 172, 177, 203, 255
as philosopher king, 85
as self-dramatizer, 45-46, 75, 78
Cordelia and, 9-10, 40-41, 45-47, 68-69, 71, 73-74, 76-79, 81, 86-87, 89-91, 94-103, 111-115, 118, 177, 181-182
disowned by Goneril, 44-45
divestiture and, 44, 57-58, 69
expulsions of Cordelia, Kent, and Edgar by, 91-97
Girard and Levinas as readers of, 85-105
Goneril’s relationship with, 45-46, 74-76, 92, 178, 180–182
losses in, 39-40, 45-47, 69, 80, 94
mother and, 46, 47, 67-81, 178, 182
theology, phenomenology, and the divine and, 107-121
LEONINE, 215
LEONTES (character in Winter’s Tale), 118
LEVI, Solomon ben Isaac, 292n26
LEVINAS, Emmanuel
as gate-keeper to Shakespeare, 166
distinguishing saying (dire) from the said (dit), 2–3, 59, 62-64, 67, 115, 159, 209, 234n56, 259-262, 266, 269, 273-274, 285-286, 287n5, 288n10
Dostoyevsky and, 18, 20-21, 25, 32, 34, 37n28, 49, 69, 281
metaphysics / metaphysical and, 18, 20, 27, 29, 33-34, 36n16, 107, 109, 117-118, 125, 128, 142-143, 160, 204, 210, 263, 285
Neoplatonism and, 204, 213-214, 231n33
on “a meditation of / on Shakespeare,” 1, 7, 13n3, 15–27, 32, 34, 34n1, 35n9, 49-50, 56, 85, 147, 152, 166, 171, 276, 295n55
on “absolute individuation,” 176-177; see also EI
on death, 8, 28-31, 49, 53-56, 62, 85, 93, 98, 101-102, 135, 143, 147, 151-154, 160, 167n6, 171, 174, 177, 182, 248
on egoism, 58-59, 61-64, 67-68, 71, 101, 110-112, 179, 203-206, 208-209, 214, 222, 245, 262-263, 276
on God, 25, 27, 49, 57, 64, 86-87, 90, 102, 107, 109-111, 115–119, 120n12 and 28, 121n29, 153-154, 160, 164-166, 261, 270-272, 285, 295n54
on Hamlet, 8, 13n7, 14n12, 28, 30, 32-33, 55, 93, 103n4, 147, 151-153, 171, 174, 179, 183n1; see also Hamlet
on Jewish thought, 3, 12-13, 15, 25-26, 33, 36n18 and 20, 49, 77, 86, 104n20, 118, 134, 138, 164, 260-261, 264, 266, 268, 271, 273-276, 289n13, 291n25, 293n33, 297n71
on King Lear, 8-9, 11, 13n7, 31-32, 48-49, 57-58, 67, 81-82, 85-87, 90, 100, 102-103, 103n4, 109, 117, 119n9, 120n11, 171, 178-181, 183n1; see also Lear
on Macbeth, 8, 11, 13n7, 14n12, 28, 30-33, 49, 55, 75, 93, 98, 103n4, 147-148, 152-154, 158-159, 166, 167n4-6, 171-172, 174, 179, 183n1; see also Macbeth
on nothing / nothingness, 1, 8, 14n8, 30, 39, 49-52, 54-56, 61, 65, 67, 90, 93, 152-153, 158-159, 174, 197
on Othello, 8, 14n12, 75; see also Othello
on possibility and impossibility, 28, 30, 54-55, 63, 69, 102, 151-153, 158-159, 163, 167n6, 174, 186, 200, 221, 242, 296n71
on pre-nature, 65, 210, 214-215, 221
on representation as tragedy and comedy, 4, 186, 188-189, 279
on subjectivity, 2, 5, 21, 53-54, 57-61, 63-64, 67, 72, 127-128, 134, 138, 171, 206, 211, 221, 234n56
on superfluxion, 179-180
on the conatus essendi, 23, 152, 203-204, 206, 208, 210, 216-217, 225-226, 226n2
on the face (visage), 10, 12, 24, 27, 34, 59, 61-67, 87, 101-102, 107, 109-112, 117-119, 120n28, 133, 147, 158-159, 162-166, 167n2, 168n25, 188, 234n56, 260-261, 296n71 33
on the “hither side,” 58, 62, 65-66, 238-239
on the human: 12, 17, 20-23, 25, 29-30, 32-33, 109, 234n53, 243, 261, 281-282, 285-286. 288n8, 289n13 and 17,
on the il y a, 30, 49-50, 54, 58, 61, 64, 93, 151, 158-159, 171-172, 183n1
on the maternal, 48, 68-69, 78, 81, 178-179, 182, 210, 225
on the ontological, 5, 21, 23-24, 33, 34n3, 56, 58, 60-64, 125, 130, 142, 160-162, 238, 281-282
on the Other / the other individual / the neighbor, 5, 9-12, 15, 18, 23-24, 28, 31-34, 48-50, 55, 57-67, 70-72, 75, 85, 87, 90-91, 94, 97, 101, 107, 109-111, 113-115, 117-119, 120n28, 125-127, 133-135, 137, 142-143, 144n12, 147-149, 150-155, 157-158, 160-162, 164, 166, 171-182, 183n6, 188, 194-195, 197, 199, 213-214, 222, 225, 232n42, 234n56, 238-240, 243-244, 253, 259, 262, 264-266, 273, 275, 277-278, 281, 283, 285-286, 286n1, 289n14, 294n37, 297n71
on the subject as deposition, 208 works:
Alterity and Transcendence (AT), 118, 121n28
Basic Philosophical Writings (BPW), 110, 158-159, 210, 225, 231n33, 232n42, 234n56, 285
Beyond the Verse (BV), 5, 36n18, 49, 259, 261, 274, 282, 286n1
Carnets de Captivité (CC), 1, 8, 13n2, 14n12, 297n71
Collected Philosophical Papers (CPP), 239
Difficult Freedom (DF), 25, 27, 286, 296n71
Entre Nous (EN), 118, 120n28, 238-239
Ethics and Infinity (EI), 7, 13n7, 21, 24-25, 32, 34, 49, 87, 102, 109-110, 112, 124, 127-128, 134, 163-164, 171, 176, 183n1, 261
Existence and Existents (EE), 8, 11, 18, 28, 30-32, 39, 49-56, 93-94, 158-159, 171-172, 174, 183n1, 193-194, 197
Humanism of the Other (HO), 11, 31, 49, 160, 162-163, 165, 167n2, 168n26, 171, 178, 181-182, 234n53
Is it Righteous to Be? (RB), 261, 286
Nine Talmudic Readings (NT), 6, 32, 57, 239, 243
Otherwise than Being (OB), 11, 13n7, 23-24, 27, 49, 58, 61-62, 65-66, 74, 91, 94, 115, 144n12, 160, 164, 171, 178-179, 181, 203-204, 208, 210, 214, 216, 221, 238, 240, 245, 247
Proper Names (PN), 18, 32, 83n19, 281, 285
The Levinas Reader (LR), 18, 37n28, 86, 103, 104n20, 118, 188-189, 196, 210
The Theory of Intuition in Husserl’s Phenomenology (TTI), 29
Time and the Other (TO), 1, 8, 10, 13n3, 15, 18, 28, 31-32, 49-50, 56, 85, 98, 101-102, 103n6, 147, 123, 151-154, 160, 171, 174, 193, 195, 198-199, 276, 295n55
Totality and Infinity (TI), 24, 31, 49, 58, 61, 63-64, 90, 94, 107, 109-110, 117, 125, 128, 130, 133-134, 142, 144n2 and 11, 145n16, 160, 163, 167n6, 168n17, 176, 187, 194, 199-200, 206, 213, 220, 222, 238, 245, 289n14
LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude, 135-136
LÉVY-BRUHL, Lucien, 53
LODGE, Thomas, 245-246, 264-265
LORENZO (character in MV), 126, 130, 133
LUCIUS (character in TAN), 209-210
LUCRECE (character in The Rape of Lucrece), 234n59
LUCRETIUS, 290n21
LYNE, Raphael, 224
LYOTARD, Jean-François, 14n9, 37n21
LYSIMACHUS (character in P), 216-218, 233n45
MACBETH (character in M), 154-155, 167n3-6, 177, 212
ambiguity of the witches in, 8
Banquo’s ghost and, 8, 30, 55, 149, 159, 241
death and, 28, 93-94, 152, 157-158
nothingness and, 54-55
self and, 172-174
MACBETH, LADY (character in M), 8, 14n12, 148-150, 154-157, 167n3, 172, 215
MACDUFF (character in M), 28, 149, 152-158, 174
MACFARLAND, Thomas, 279, 291n22
MAHLER, Margaret, 71
MALCOLM (character in M), 149, 156-157, 203
MANSFIELD, Bruce, 228n8
MARCEL, Gabriel, 58
MARINA (character in P), 118, 213-218, 232n41, 233n45
MARKISH, Shimon, 229n18
MARLOWE, Christopher, 129, 140, 206-207, 214
MARX, Karl, 16, 134, 140, 144n11, 200
MARY, Queen of Scots, 42
MCADAM, Ian, 211
MCDONALD, Marcia, 247
MEDUSA, 157
MERCUTIO (character in Romeo and Juliet), 44
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice, 14n9, 17
MILLER, Robert P., 198
MIRANDOLA, Pico della, 206
MOLIÈRE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 37, 49, 189
MONTAIGNE, Michel de, 12, 237, 240, 250–253
MOORE, Jeanie Grant, 231n31 and 33
MOROCCO (character in MV), 131
MORTIMER, Anthony, 189, 194, 198
MOSHE (Moses), 25, 160, 165, 293n36
MOWBRAY, Thomas (character in R2), 76
MYRRHA, 100
NEMO, Philippe, 13n7, 103n4, 109, 134, 163-165, 171, 183n1
NERISSA (character in MV), 126, 136
NEWMAN, Karen, 135-136
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich, 1, 14n9, 16, 18-19, 35n7
NIOBE, 189
NOAH, 164
NOVY, Marianne L., 144n13
OLIVER (character in AL), 242-243, 246, 249, 253, 292n28
OPHELIA (character in H), 175, 177
ORLANDO (character in AL), 257n18, 258n42, 265, 276, 288n11, 292n28
at the banquet, 254-255
playing the part of warrior, 252-253
Rosalind and, 259, 277, 279-284
ORSINO (character in Twelfth Night), 244
OSWALD (character in KL), 97, 100
OTHELLO (character in O), 45, 72, 74-75, 77, 187, 222
OVID, 186, 189-193, 195-196, 209
PANDER (character in P), 215
PANOFSKY, Erwin, 190
PARKER, Fred, 253
PARVINI, Neema, 287n4
PEGG, Barry, 186
PERICLES (character in P), 116, 118, 212-214, 216-218, 233n44-45
PEPERZAK, Adriaan T., 120n15
PERPICH, Diane, 230n23
PERRET, Marion D., 137-138, 141
PICASSO, Pablo, 22
PISANIO (character in CY), 223–225
PLATO, 1, 21, 23, 25, 27, 33, 58, 237
attitude toward eating and the body, 250
dualistic model and, 239
Neoplatonism and, 204-206, 210-214, 231n33, 233n45, 290n19
on representational, 50
philosophy as footnote to, 152
The Republic, 86
truth as special case of lie, 18
PLOTINUS, 1, 205, 214, 231n32 and 35
PLUMMER, Christopher, 80
PLUTO, 219
POLONIUS (character in H), 175
PORTER (character in M), 148, 166
PORTIA (character in MV), 126, 130-132, 135-136, 138-141, 145n15
POSTHUMUS (character in P), 116, 219-220, 222-225, 235n70
PRIAPUS, 216
PROCNE, 209
PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS, 205
PUSHKIN, Alexander, 21, 32, 49, 261
PUTNEY, Rufus, 186
PYGMALION, 196
QUEEN the (character in CY), 203-204, 206, 218, 220, 224
RANCIÈRE, Jacques, 131
RAPHAEL, 244
RASHI (Shlomo Yitzhaki), 271-272, 292n29, 293n36, 294n39-40, 295n48 and 52
REDEN, Sitta von, 144n13
REGAN (character in KL), 76, 92
death of, 98
“filial ingratitude” of, 68
genesis of time and tragedy and, 88–90
Goneril and, 40, 45, 70, 74, 88, 92, 97-99, 112, 114, 180-181
Lear and, 74, 92, 94-95, 178, 180–182
RICHARD II (character in R2), 40, 43, 73, 76
RICHARD III (character in Richard III), 203
RICHMOND, Hugh M., 278
RILKE, Rainer Maria, 35
ROBBINS, Jill, 183n1
ROBINSON, Jenefer, 221
ROSALIND (character in AL), 12, 245, 247, 249, 260, 276, 296n68
Jaques and, 264-266, 279, 281-282
Orlando and, 253, 259, 280-284
Sarah Siddons on, 278
ROSENCRANTZ, 175-176
ROSENZWEIG, Franz, 58, 60, 171, 173-174, 183n3
ROSS (character in M), 149-150
ROTHENBERG, Alan Baer, 185
ROYLE, Nicholas, 168n24
RUMMEL, Erika, 229n18
RYAN, Kiernan, 123-124
RYBA, Thomas, 83
SADE, Marquis de, 36n12
SALERIO (character in MV), 131-133
SARTRE, Jean-Paul, 24, 30, 34n3, 152, 171, 206
SCÈVE, Maurice, 288n11
SCHAUFELEIN, Hans, 286
SCHIFFER, James, 194
SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur, 14n9, 35n7
SCOOBY DOO, 161
SCOTT, William, 284
SERRES, Michel, 237
SHAKESPEARE, William, 28-29
and Biblical commandments, 102-103
and “hysterica passio”, 46-47, 55, 77, 178,
and Jews in British Renaissance context, 126
and kinship, 144n13, 203, 210, 231n31
and the maternal, 11, 46-48, 67-73, 75, 77-78, 80-81, 83n26, 84n32, 96-97, 103, 178-179, 182, 183n4 and 6, 203, 208, 210-211, 213, 215-216, 218, 220, 223, 225, 235n61 and 70, 241, 248, 275, 295n51
as “fabricator of nothingness,” 1, 8, 14n12
humanity / humanist, 2, 5, 12, 20-23, 25, 29-30, 32-33, 94, 118, 141, 187, 214, 216-217, 219, 222, 226n2-3, 227n6-7, 229n15, 18, and 19, 230n21, 232n41, 234n53, 243, 249, 252-253, 261, 281-282, 285-286, 287n3, 289n13 and 17, 290n19 and 21, 291n22
moral dimension / morality in, 2, 7, 16-21, 23-25, 27, 30-31, 33, 35n9, 113, 123, 131, 136, 140, 143, 150, 154, 157, 162, 167n3, 191, 194-195, 199, 203, 207-209, 217-221, 224, 226, 227n5, 234n53, 237, 246, 255, 264-266, 272, 288n10, 289n13, 290n17 and 21, 291n23
“nothing comes from nothing” and, 80-82, 84n30, 90
on delirium / madness, 9, 28, 40, 44-45, 47, 67, 69, 93-95, 99-100, 149, 168n23, 176-177
on ghosts, 3, 8, 10-11, 30, 41, 55, 147-150, 152-153, 155-159, 161, 165, 174
on the face: 111, 113-114, 118-119, 147, 149-151, 154-158, 165-166, 172, 215, 219, 260-261, 280, 296n71
role of teacher, 277
works:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MND), 1, 13n1
Anthony and Cleopatra (AC), 116, 197-198
As You Like It (AL), 12, 237-258, 259-297
Coriolanus, 203
Cymbeline (CY), 11, 75, 116, 203-204, 218-220, 222-226, 234n57, 235n70
Hamlet (H), 3, 8, 11, 13n7, 14n12, 20, 28, 30, 32-33, 40, 42, 44, 49, 55, 75, 78-79, 93, 103n4, 104n19, 147, 151, 153, 171, 174, 183n1
Henry VIII, 17
Julius Caesar, 218
King John, 203
King Lear (KL) 8-11, 13n7, 14n12, 31-32, 39-105, 107-121, 171, 177-181, 183n1, 218, 246, 279
Macbeth (M) 8, 11, 13n7, 14n12, 28, 30-33, 49, 55, 75, 93, 98, 103n4, 147-169, 171, 173-174, 179, 183n1, 203, 241
Much Ado about Nothing (MAN), 196, 202n47
Othello (O), 8, 14n12, 40-41, 44, 72-75, 78-79, 229n19
Pericles (P), 11, 116, 120n24, 203-204, 211, 222, 230n28, 231n30
Richard II (R2), 1, 40, 43-44, 73, 76, 78-79
Romeo and Juliet, 28, 44, 49, 147
Taming of the Shrew, 241
The Merchant of Venice (MV), 10, 123-145, 202n39, 260, 287n5
The Rape of Lucrece, 222
The Tempest, 17, 75, 227n7, 241
The Winter’s Tale, 75, 78, 227n7
Titus Andronicus (TAN), 196, 202n47, 206-207, 222, 240-241, 249
Venus and Adonis (VA), 11, 185-202
See also LEVINAS, Emmanuel
SHAPIRO, James, 124, 126, 130, 145n15, 287n5
SHIMON and Levi, 293n36
SHMUEL HaKatan, 291n25
SHOHET, Lauren, 191
SHOULSON, Jeffrey S., 287n4
SHYLOCK (character in MV), 124, 127, 129, 132-133, 137-139, 145n15, 192, 229n18, 287n5
confronts the Hellenic of, 140
“Hath not a Jew?” speech, 141
on his house, 130
on perils of mercantile shipping, 128
SIDNEY, Philip, 219
SIEGEL, Paul N., 107
SIMONDS, Peggy Muñoz, 222, 224, 230n20 and 26, 232n41, 235n63
SIMONIDES (character in P), 212-213, 231n33
SLIFE, Brent D., 238
SLIGHTS, Camille, 144n13
SNYDER, Susan, 115
SOLANIO (character in MV), 131-133, 145n15
SOLOMON, 92
SOUND OF Music, The, 80-81
SPENSER, Edmund, 193
SPINOZA, Baruch, 17, 36n19, 37n26, 203
STALIN, Joseph, 20
STHENO, 157
STRAUSS, Leo, 35n9
STRICKLAND, Agnes, 289n13
STRIER, Richard, 108
SUSANNA (Shakespeare’s daughter), 42
TALMUD, 6, 20, 23, 25-27, 31, 33, 36n19-20, 86, 39, 261-262, 267-270, 274-275, 287n4, 288n7, 291n25, 292n31, 293n33, 295n49
TAMBLING, Jeremy, 167n3-5
TAMORA (character in TAN), 206-210, 229n19, 241
TARQUIN (character in “The Rape of Lucrece”), 234n59
TEMA, Yehudah ben, 291n25
THAISA (character in P), 212-214, 218
THORNE, Alison, 234n57
TITUS (character in TAN), 206-209, 241
TOUCHSTONE (character in AL), 246, 254, 280, 282
TRILLING, Lionel, 19
TUCKER, Don M., 234n52
VALVO, Clara, 296n68
VAN DOREN, Mark, 278
VENUS (character in VA), 11, 197
allegorical meaning of, 199
as a fool, 186
as aggressive, 189-191,
as helpless, 195
as sexual predator, 185
desires of, 194
seduction of Adonis, 187
speeches of, 191-192
transformation of Adonis into flower, 192-193, 198
treating Adonis as object, 188, 196
VICKERS, Nancy J., 288n11
VIRGIL, 210
VOLOZHIN, (Rabbi) Hayyim (Chaim) of, 26
as rabbinical scholar, 273-274
influence on Levinas, 261, 267, 273, 288n9, 295n49
VRIES, Hent de, 168n22
WAGNER, Richard, 35n7
WAHL, Jean, 31
WALHOUT, Mark, 139
on Exodus, 127, 138-139, 144n7
WATSON, Robert, 240, 243, 256n10
WEBER, Max, 144n9
WELLS, Robin Headlam, 226n2-3, 227n6, 229n15 and 18, 234n53
WESTPHAL, Merold, 121n29
WILKINS, George, 211
WITCHES, the (characters in M), 8, 30, 55, 148-150, 159, 172
WOFFORD, Susanne L., 279, 283-284
WOLFSON, Harry Austryn, 36n19
WYSCHOGROD, Edith, 29
YAAKOV (Jacob), 293n36
YACHNIN, Paul, 240
YOCH, James J., 198
YORICK (character in H), 177