Index

AARON (character in TA), 207-209, 229n19

ABARBANEL, 292n26, 294n43

ABAYE, 274-275, 295n51 and 53

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

ALPERS, Paul J., 113, 120n17

ALVAREZ, Leo Paul S. de, 233n45

AMATA, 210

AMIENS, 244-245, 248

ANCHISES, 264

ANDREWS, Julie, 80-81; see also VON TRAPP

ANNESLEY, Brian, 42, 75

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

ARISTOTLE, 1, 14n9, 58

ARMENGAUD, Françoise, 103n4

ARNOLD, Matthew, 2, 125

ARTHUR (character in King John), 203

ATALANTA, 191

AUDREY (character in AY), 280

AUGUSTINE, 205, 226n5, 228n11-12

BADIOU, Alain, 109, 120n11

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

BARABAS, 129, 207

BARBER, C. L., 74, 83n29

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

BERGSON, Henri, 1, 16, 18

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

BOETHIUS, 39, 56, 82n1

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,

BRADLEY, A. C., 2, 115,120n19

BREU, Jörg, 286

BRODY, Jules, 252

BROOKE, S. A., 278

BROWN, Guy Story, 86, 103n1 and 7

BROWN, Huntington, 187, 201n16

BRUNO, Giordano, 206

BUBER, Martin, 58, 60

BUCHLER, Justus, 36n14

BUSHNELL, Rebecca W., 229n17

CAIN, 102, 181

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

CELAN, Paul, 18, 20, 165

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

CHRIST, 207, 225

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

CLAUDIUS, 104n19, 175

CLEGG, Joshua W., 238, 256n7

CLEON (character in P), 214-215

CLEOPATRA, 116, 197

COLE, Howard, 257n22

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, 2, 23

CORDELIA (character in KL), 103

as mother, 81

as “thankless child,” 68, 77

death of, 41-42, 47, 182

“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

scapegoating of, 89-90, 94-96

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

DANTE, 49, 195

DERRIDA, Jacques, 14n9, 120n10, 124, 143n1, 144n5, 147, 167n1, 168n24, 296n56

critique of Levinas, 125-126, 142

Jewish sources and, 36n19

on ethics, 135

on the trace, 160-161, 168n25

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

DIOTIMA, 205, 212

DIXON, Joe, 281

DOBSON, Michael, 248, 257n23

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

DRAPER, John W., 260, 287n3

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

Edmund and, 88-89, 97, 100

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

ELIZABETH I, 42, 280

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

ERICKSON, Peter, 248, 257n25

EURIPIDES, 221

EURYALE, 157

EVANS, John, 287n3

EVE, 107, 248-249, 294n39

EXTON (character in R2), 40

EZEKIEL, 174

FALSTAFF (Shakespearean character), 35

FEUERBACH, Ludwig, 16

FICINO, Marsilio, 206

FLAUBERT, Gustave, 24

FLORIO, John, 252, 258n38

FOGLIA, Marc, 252, 258n39

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

GIDDENS, Anthony, 217, 232n44

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 Job, 92-93, 105n30

on méconnaissance, 96, 105n32

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

death of, 40, 100-101

on gods turning against humans, 76

on killing for sport, 41, 48

on loving, 91

siding with Lear, 94-95

sons of, 88, 91, 96-97, 99-101

GOBBO, Launcelot, 127, 133

GOD, 64, 115, 148 allusions to in KL, 85-86, 99, 102-103

allusions to in M, 148

allusions to in MV, 139

as merciful, 57, 140

as real and concrete, 25

Borges on Shakespeare and, 39

Calvin and, 227n6

Cordelia and, 108, 111

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

GOLLANCZ, Hermann, 14n15, 266

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

GOWER, John, 212, 217, 231n30

GRATIANO (character in MV), 128, 130, 136

GREEF, Jan de, 37n21, 256n6

GREENBLATT, Stephen, 42, 47, 73, 75-77, 140, 142, 230n28

GROSS, Kenneth, 287n5

GROSSMAN, Vasily, 18, 20

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

nothingness and, 8, 14n11

otherness of, 176

reflection of Shakespearean tragedy, 8

responsibility and, 176-177

HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar, 80, 84n30

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

totalizing, 58, 60

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 anxiety, 56, 171

on authenticity, 206

on “being-toward-death,” 28, 56

on philosophy and art, 35n3

on possibility of impossibility, 152

ontologizing, 58, 60

romanticism of, 188

Sorge, 182

HELIODORUS, 219

HERCULES, 130-131

HERMIONE (character in Winter’s Tale), 118

HIPPOMENES, 191

HITLER, Adolf, 22, 181-182

HOGAN, Patrick Colm, 203, 226n1, 233n52, 234n55

HOLBROOK, Peter, 253

HOLINSHED, Raphael, 85, 126

HOMER, 21, 60, 127, 143, 177

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

HUNT, Maurice, 226, 258n42

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

melancholy of, 276, 279

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

JOB, 81, 92-93, 105n30

JOHN OF GAUNT (character in R2), 43

JOHNSON, Samuel, 2, 40

JONES, Martin, 249

JOSHUA, 130

JOYCE, James, 125

JULIET (character in Romeo and Juliet), 151, 167n5

JUNO, 210

KAHN, Coppélia, 186

KAHN, Paul W., 89, 94, 96

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

expulsion of, 91, 95

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

KIERKEGAARD, Søren, 14n9, 31

KIERNAN, Pauline, 196

KLAUSE, John, 187

KNIGHT, G. Wilson, 108, 115

KNOWLES, James, 233n45

KRISTEVA, Julia, 220, 231n33, 297n79

LACAN, Jacques, 14n9, 72, 194

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 foolish, 47, 89, 92

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

“darker purpose” of, 9, 39-84

death of, 9, 40-41, 177

disowned by Goneril, 44-45

divestiture and, 44, 57-58, 69

Dumm on, 39-40, 46-47, 71

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

Oedipus and, 81, 96

piety and, 9, 70, 87, 97

theology, phenomenology, and the divine and, 107-121

LEONINE, 215

LEONTES (character in Winter’s Tale), 118

LERMONTOV, Mikhail, 32, 49

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 eating, 239-241, 245-247

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 irrectitude, 163, 165

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

LEWIS, C. S., 2, 185

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

LUTHER, Martin, 228n8, 232n40

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

Levinas on, 8, 28, 172

Macduff and, 152, 154

nothingness and, 54-55

self and, 172-174

witches and, 149-150, 159

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

MAHON, John, 241, 247

MAIMONIDES, Moses, 26, 291n25

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

MARS, 130, 198-199, 290n17

MARX, Karl, 16, 134, 140, 144n11, 200

MARY, Queen of Scots, 42

MCADAM, Ian, 211

MCCOY, Richard, 226, 227n7

MCDONALD, Marcia, 247

MEDUSA, 157

MEIRI, 292n27, 294n42

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

ODYSSEUS, 60, 129, 131

OEDIPUS, 81, 96

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

food and, 242-248, 264

playing the part of warrior, 252-253

Rosalind and, 259, 277, 279-284

ORPHEUS, 209, 255

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

PASCAL, Blaise, 31, 51

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

PERSEPHONE, 192, 219

PHILOMEL, 208-209, 222

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

PROUST, Marcel, 32, 49, 281

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

RACINE, Jean-Baptiste, 21, 93

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

hypocrisy of, 112, 114

Lear and, 74, 92, 94-95, 178, 180–182

REYNOLDS, Simon, 219, 235n70

RICHARD II (character in R2), 40, 43, 73, 76

RICHARD III (character in Richard III), 203

RICHMOND, Hugh M., 278

RICOEUR, Paul, 26, 86

RILKE, Rainer Maria, 35

ROBBINS, Jill, 183n1

ROBINSON, Jenefer, 221

RODGERS, Richard, 80, 84n30

ROSALIND (character in AL), 12, 245, 247, 249, 260, 276, 296n68

as Ganymede, 253, 280, 284

Celia and, 277, 296n57

farewell address of, 262, 284

Jaques and, 264-266, 279, 281-282

Orlando and, 253, 259, 280-284

Sarah Siddons on, 278

wit of, 279-280, 285

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

SAID, Edward, 138, 144n7

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

SERONSY, Cecil C., 264, 265

SERRES, Michel, 237

SEWARD, Anna, 278, 282-283

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

playing Adam, 263-264, 276

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

Sonnets, 43, 84n32, 192

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

Timon of Athens, 75, 241

Titus Andronicus (TAN), 196, 202n47, 206-207, 222, 240-241, 249

Twelfth Night, 144n13, 244

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

SIDDONS, Sarah, 278, 282

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

SOCRATES, 19, 31, 237, 250

SOLANIO (character in MV), 131-133, 145n15

SOLOMON, 92

SOPHOCLES, 81, 96

SOUND OF Music, The, 80-81

SPENSER, Edmund, 193

SPINOZA, Baruch, 17, 36n19, 37n26, 203

STALIN, Joseph, 20

STEINER, David, 143, 144n10

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

TASSO, 211, 219

TEMA, Yehudah ben, 291n25

THAISA (character in P), 212-214, 218

THORNE, Alison, 234n57

TITUS (character in TAN), 206-209, 241

TOSEFOT, 291n25, 294n37

TOLSTOY, Leo, 21, 32, 49

TOUCHSTONE (character in AL), 246, 254, 280, 282

TRILLING, Lionel, 19

TUCKER, Don M., 234n52

TURGENEV, Ivan, 32, 49

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

VON TRAPP, Maria, 80, 83n30

VRIES, Hent de, 168n22

WAGNER, Richard, 35n7

WAHL, Jean, 31

WALHOUT, Mark, 139

WALZER, Michael, 124, 142

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

WILLIAMS, Gordon, 185, 190

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