Table of Contents

List of plates; 1. Richard II and the realities of power S. Schoenbaum; 2. The politics of corruption in Shakespeare's England Joel Hurstfield; 3. Literature without philosophy: Antony and Cleopatra Morris Weitz; 4. Self-consciousness in Montaigne and Shakespeare Robert Ellrodt; 5. Measure for Measure: the bed-trick A. D. Nuttall; 6. Shakespeare and the doctrine of the unity of time Ernest Schanzer; 7. Coriolanus and the body politic Andrew Gurr; 8. Titus Andronicus, III, i, 298–9 Pierre Legouis; 9. The Merchant of Venice and the pattern of romantic comedy R. F. Hill; 10. The integrity of Measure for Measure Arthur C. Kirsch; 11. 'To say one': an essay on Hamlet Ralph Berry; 12. The Tempest and King James's Daemonologie Jacqueline E. M. Latham; 13. Sight-lines in a conjectural reconstruction of an Elizabethan playhouse D. A. Latter; 14. The smallest season: the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford in 1974 Peter Thomson; 15. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study D. J. Palmer, N. W. Bawcutt and Richard Proudfoot; Index.

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