Acknowledgments Prologue. "As If for Surety": The Problematics of Shakespearean Probability Part I. Toward a Rhetorical Genealogy of Othello One. "My Parts, My Title, and My Perfect Soul": Ingenuity, Apodeixis, and the Origins of Rhetorical Anthropology Two. "Against My Estimation": Ciceronian Decorum, Stoic Constancy, and the Production of Ethos Part II. The Logic of Renaissance Rhetoric Three. "Apt and True": Speech, World, and Thought in Shakespeare's Humanist Dialectic Four. "Yonder's Fair Murders Done": Place, Predicament, and Grammatical Space on Cyprus Part III.

Willful Words, Christian Anxieties, and Shakespearean Dramaturgy Five. "Tis in Ourselves That We Are Thus, or Thus": Will, Habit, and the Discourse of Res Six. 'Preposterous Conclusions": Eros, Enargeia , and Composition in Othello Seven. "Prophetic Fury": The Language of Theatrical Potentiality and the Economy of Shakespearean Reception Part IV. Tropings of the Self in Shakespeare's Scripts Eight. "I Am Not What I Am": Shakespeare's Scripted Subject Nine. "Nobody. I Myself": Discovering What Passes Show Part V.

Performing the Improbable Other on Shakespeare's Stage Ten. "Were I the Moor, I Would Not Be Iago": Ligatures of Self and Stranger Eleven. "It Is Not Words That Shakes Me Thus": Burbage, as if Othello Epilogue. "Make Not Impossible / That Which But Seems Unlike": The Twilight of Probability and the Dawn of Shakespearean Romance Notes Bibliography Index.