Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: A Meditation; 2: Lear's "Darker Purpose"; 3: Girard and Levinas as Readers of King Lear; 4: Theology, Phenomenology, and the Divine in King Lear; 5: Investment, Return, Alterity, and The Merchant of Venice; 6: Traces, Faces, and Ghosts; 7: From Horror to Solitude to Maternity; 8: The Frustration of Desire and the Weakness of Power in Venus and Adonis; 9: Ethical Ambiguity of the Maternal in Shakespeare's First Romances.
  • 10: Culinary Skepticism in As You Like It and Montaigne's "Of Experience"11: Staging Humanity in As You Like It and Pirkei Avot; Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index.