Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Authorship	1
1	Looney and the Oxfordians	4
Pt. II	New Criticism	15
2	The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness	19
3	"Honest" in Othello	35
4	"Introductory" Chapter About the Tragedies	50
5	The "New Criticism" and King Lear	63
Pt. III	Dramatic Kinds	89
6	The Argument of Comedy	93
7	Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories	100
8	The Saturnalian Pattern	116
9	The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies	125
Pt. IV	The 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure	149
10	Reflections on the Sentimentalist's Othello	152
11	Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet	164
12	King Lear or Endgame	174
13	The Cheapening of the Stage	191
14	How Not to Murder Caesar	209
Pt. V	Reader-Response Criticism	221
15	On the Value of Hamlet	225
16	Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V	245
Pt. VI	Textual Criticism and Bibliography	265
17	The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare	269
18	Revising Shakespeare	280
19	Narrative About Printed Shakespeare Texts: "Foul Papers" and "Bad Quartos"	296
Pt. VII	Psychoanalytic Criticism	319
20	"Anger's my meat": Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus	323
21	The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear	338
22	To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III	353
23	What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis	365
24	The Turn of the Shrew	399
Pt. VIII	Historicism and New Historicism	417
25	The Cosmic Background	422
26	Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V	435
27	The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies	458
28	"Shaping Fantasies": Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture	481
Pt. IX	Materialist Criticism	511
29	Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and Experiment	515
30	King Lear (ca. 1605-1606) and Essentialist Humanism	535
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	547
Pt. X	Feminist Criticism	565
32	Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism	570
33	"I wooed thee with my sword": Shakespeare's Tragic Paradigms	591
34	The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics	606
35	Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies	633
Pt. XI	Studies in Gender and Sexuality	651
36	"This that you call love": Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello	655
37	The Performance of Desire	669
38	The Secret Sharer	684
39	The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy	704
Pt. XII	Performance Criticism	727
40	Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre	732
41	The Critical Revolution	745
42	William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Everything's Nice in America?	750
43	Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism	762
Pt. XIII	Postcolonial Shakespeare	777
44	Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest	781
45	Sexuality and Racial Difference	794
46	Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest	817
Pt. XIV	Reading Closely	845
47	Shakespeare's Prose	848
48	The Play of Phrase and Line	861
49	Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric	880
	Index	908