List of illustrations | |
Acknowledgements | |
Foreword | |
Introduction | |
Shakespeare's England | |
Religious and philosophical developments | |
Government and authority | |
Elizabethan and Jacobean society | |
'Words, words, words': Shakespeare's English | |
Plays into print | |
Shakespeare and the theatre of his time | |
Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy | |
Shakespeare's theatre | |
Plays and audiences | |
Critical Analysis | |
Hamlet | |
Othello | |
King Lear | |
Macbeth. Postscript: What lies beyond tragedy? | |
Reference Section | |
Short biographies | |
Further Reading | |
Appendix: The theatres of Shakespeare's London | |
Index | |
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