Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Promising, Forgiving

Part One: Penance to Repentance

1. The Mind’s Retreat from the Face

2. Rites of Forgiveness

Part Two: Promising

3. Repairs in the Dark: Measure for Measure and the End of Comedy

Part Three: Forgiving

4. The Recovery of Voice in Shakespeare’s Pericles

5. Acknowledgment and Confession in Cymbeline

6. Shakespeare’s Resurrections: The Winter’s Tale

7. Making Good in The Tempest

Notes

Bibliography