Alternative Shakespeares by Hawkes, Terence -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Illustrations Contributors General editor’s preface Acknowledgements

Note

1: Introduction

I: In Lieu II: Myth III: History IV: Culture V: Meanings VI: Options VII: Getting it wrong

2: After the new historicism

I II III

3: Cleopatra’s Seduction

I II III IV v

4: Imprints: Shakespeare, Gutenberg and Descartes

I: Metaphysics II: Genetics III: Metaphorics IV: Mechanics

5: L[o]cating the sexual subject 6: How to read The Merchant of Venice without being heterosexist

I: Antonio vs. Portia II: Property and sodomy III: Friendly relations IV: Subcultures and Shakespeare

7: ‘ln what chapter of his bosom?’: reading Shakespeare’s bodies

8: Shakespeare and cultural difference

I II III IV

9: ‘Othello was a white man’: properties of race on Shakespeare’s stage

I II III IV V

10: Watching Hamlet watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror/stage

I: A strange accident happening at a play II: The glass of fashion III: Enter the imaginary and symbolic IV: The stage mirror V: The consciousness of the king VI: A thing…of nothing Some critical questions

11: Afterword: the next generation Notes

Bibliography