SHAKESPEARE AND THE DIALECTIC OF CERTAINTY

St. Martins Press

Table of Contents

Preface
A Note on Sources
1. Introduction: Backgrounds in Logic
2. Audience and Illusion: Certainty of Character in The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream
3. Certainty and Love at First Sight: The Heart Sees Deeper Than the Eye: Troilus and Cressida and Romeo and Juliet.
4. The Politics of Certainty: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; Henry V; Julius Caesar
5. The Uncertainty of Certainty: Hamlet
6. The Certainty of Evil: Richard III and Othello
7. Imperfect Speech and Uncertain Language: Macbeth and King Lear
8. The Renunciation of Certainty: The Tempest
Notes