A Beginner's Guide to Shakespeare

Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and a Lecturer in English of Oxford University. She is the author of Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996) and co-editor of Textual Formations and Reformations (1998), among other publications.

Acknowledgements. Conventions. List Of Illustrations. 1. Private Life: Shakespeare And Selfhood: The Divided Self. Comedy Of Errors; As You Like ItNaming The Self. Troilus And Cressida; Romeo And Juliet; Taming Of The ShrewThe Self And Language. Measure For Measure; Troilus And CressidaThe National Self. Othello; King Lear The Self At Play. Love's Labour's Lost; Taming Of The Shrew2. Marital Life: Shakespeare And Romance: Love And Hazard. Merchant Of Venice. Love And Friendship. Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Winter's Tale; Two Noble KinsmenLove And Madness. Midsummer Night's Dream; Cymbeline; All's Well; Measure For Measure; Troilus And CressidaMarriage And Identity. Comedy Of Errors; All's Well; Taming Of The ShrewLove And Abuse. The Taming Of The Shrew; Merry Wives Of Windsor; Othello; Troilus And Cressida3. Political Life: Shakespeare And Government: Acting Politics. 3 Henry 6; Richard 3; 1 Henry 4; 2 Henry 4; Henry 5; Coriolanus; Julius CaesarSurviving Politics. Richard 2; Macbeth The Personal Versus The Political. Richard 2; Henry 4; Henry 54. Public Life: Shakespeare And Social Structures: Money. Macbeth; Merchant Of Venice; Romeo And Juliet; Merry Wives Of Windsor; Timon Of AthensWomen And Public Life. Antony And Cleopatra; King John; Measure For MeasureLanguage. Titus Andronicus; Much Ado About Nothing; All's Well5. Real Life: Shakespeare And Suffering: Mingled Yarns. Twelfth Night; King Lear; Much AdoMourning. Hamlet; Twelfth NightThe Family. King Lear; MacbethAnger And Revenge. Titus AndronicusForgiveness. Cymbeline; Pericles; Winter's Tale; Tempest; Henry 8; Two Noble KinsmenIndex.