Contents
Editorial Preface
Chapter One: Oedipus at Elsinore: How Hamlet Legitimizes the Renaissance without Licensing Its Furies
Chapter Two: Breaking from Europe: A Bastard, A Bad King, and the Birth of Britain in King John
Chapter Three: The Tragedy of Brutus: Envy, Honor, and Filial Fury in Julius Caesar
Chapter Four: King Lear and the Death of God
Chapter Five: Antony and Cleopatra and the Unarming of Eros