Shakespeare: an anthology of criticism and theory, 1945-2000

Pt. I. Authorship

1. Looney and the Oxfordians / S. Schoenbaum

Pt. II. New Criticism

2. Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness / Cleanth Brooks

3. "Honest" in Othello / William Empson

4. "Introductory" Chapter About the Tragedies / Wolfgang Clemen

5. "New Criticism" and King Lear / William R. Keast

Pt. III. Dramatic Kinds

6. Argument of Comedy / Northrop Frye

7. Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories / A. P. Rossiter

8. Saturnalian Pattern / C. L. Barber

9. Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies / Maynard Mack

Pt. IV. 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure

10. Reflections on the Sentimentalist's Othello / Barbara Everett

11. Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet / Harry Levin

12. King Lear or Endgame / Jan Kott

13. Cheapening of the Stage / Anne Righter

14. How Not to Murder Caesar / Sigurd Burckhardt

Pt. V. Reader-Response Criticism

15. On the Value of Hamlet / Stephen Booth

16. Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V / Norman Rabkin

Pt. VI. Textual Criticism and Bibliography

17. New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare / Fredson Bowers

18. Revising Shakespeare / Gary Taylor

19. Narrative About Printed Shakespeare Texts: "Foul Papers" and "Bad Quartos" / Paul Werstine

Pt. VII. Psychoanalytic Criticism

20. "Anger's my meat": Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus / Janet Adelman

21. Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear / Stanley Cavell

22. To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III / Rene Girard

23. What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis / Harry Berger, Jr.

24. Turn of the Shrew / Joel Fineman

Pt. VIII. Historicism and New Historicism

25. Cosmic Background / E. M. W. Tillyard

26. Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V / Stephen Greenblatt

27. New Historicism in Renaissance Studies / Jean E. Howard

28. "Shaping Fantasies": Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture / Louis Adrian Montrose

Pt. IX. Materialist Criticism

29. Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and Experiment / Robert Weimann

30. King Lear (ca. 1605-1606) and Essentialist Humanism / Jonathan Dollimore

31. Give an Account of Shakespeare and Education, Showing Why You Think They Are Effective and What You Have Appreciated About Them. Support Your Comments with Precise References / Alan Sinfield

Pt. X. Feminist Criticism

32. Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism / L. T. Fitz

33. "I wooed thee with my sword": Shakespeare's Tragic Paradigms / Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether

34. Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics / Lynda E. Boose

35. Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies / Catherine Belsey

Pt. XI. Studies in Gender and Sexuality

36. "This that you call love": Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello / Gayle Greene

37. Performance of Desire / Stephen Orgel

38. Secret Sharer / Bruce R. Smith

39. Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy / Valerie Traub

Pt. XII. Performance Criticism

40. Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre / Gerald Eades Bentley

41. Critical Revolution / J. L. Styan

42. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Everything's Nice in America? / Barbara Hodgdon

43. Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism / William B. Worthen

Pt. XIII. Postcolonial Shakespeare

44. Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest / Francis Barker and Peter Hulme

45. Sexuality and Racial Difference / Ania Loomba

46. Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest / Meredith Anne Skura

Pt. XIV. Reading Closely

47. Shakespeare's Prose / Jonas A. Barish

48. Play of Phrase and Line / George T. Wright

49. Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric / Patricia Parker.