Tabla de Contenidos: “…COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; Chapter 1. The Winter's Tale: marriage and re-marriage; Chapter 2. The false-self couple: seeking truth and being true; Chapter 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Political Discord in Coriolanus; Part II Economy and Ecology; 4 Hospitality's Risk, Grace's Bargain: Uncertain Economies in The Winter's Tale; 5 Hospitality in Anthony and Cleopatra; Part III Script; 6 Ave Desdemona…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9 DEATH BY NUMBERS: Counting and Accounting in The Winter's Tale10 HAMLET, PRINCE: Tragedy, Citizenship, and Political Theology; 11 MEMORY, IDEOLOGY, TRANSLATION: King Lear Behind Bars and Before History; 12 THE MATERIALITY OF THE SCHOLARLY TEXT: What Our Books Reveal About Us; 13 ALTERNATIVE COLLABORATIONS: Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, Our Academy, and the Science of Probability; 14 AFTERWORD: Alternativity at the Theatric…”

“…In plays ranging from A Midsummer Night's Dream to King Lear and The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare invites readers and audiences to be more responsive to the texture and meaning of daily encounters, whether in the intimacies of love, the demands of social and political life, or moments of ethical decision. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Scavenging as a strategy: shovelling revisited 'Every mile is two in winter ...' Conclusion: a winter's tale Springtime -- a land awakening Spring renewal Spring relocations? …”

“…Echoing Freud's fascination with Shakespeare, Michael Conran, Peter Hildebrand, Gerald Wooster, and Peter Buckroyd find much to feast on in King Lear, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale. The interplay of inner and outer world, inner and outer reality, brings about a rich tapestry of conflicts, desires, anxieties, challenges and resolutions that were as true then as they are now. …”