Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Learning from Shakespeare, Poet of Western Civilization
1. Shakespeare On Love (and Marriage)
2. Juliet’s Nominalism and the Failure of Love
3. The Racial “Other” in The Merchant of Venice and Othello
4. Shakespeare’s History Plays and the Erasmian Christian Prince
5. Freedom and Tyranny in Julius Caesar and Hamlet
6. “Light Thickens” Freedom and Tyranny in Macbeth
7. Hope and Despair in King Lear: The Gospel and the Crisis of Natural Law
8. The Tempest in the Academic Teapot
Afterword
Bibliography
Index