Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Hegel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman's Mystery Chapter 2: Over-Measuring the World: The Principle of Quantity in Kant and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 3: Principled Virtue in Antony and Cleopatra : Celerity Chapter 4: Principled Virtues of Generosity and Duty, and Remarkable Over-Measure in Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 5: Over-Measures of Quality in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus : Tomb, Hue, Emanation, the Mark, and the Principled Virtue of Purity Chapter 6: Over-Measures of Quality in Titus Andronicus : Revenge Caves and The Principled Virtue of Confidence Chapter 7: Over-Measures of Substance in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar : The Principled Virtue of Leadership Chapter 8: Over-Measures of Causality in Julius Caesar : Succession and the Soothsayer (Ambiguous Generation) Chapter 9: Over-Measures of Coexistence in Julius Caesar : Monstrosities and the Narcissism of the Void Chapter 10: Over-Measures of Modality in Kant and Julius Caesar : Possibility and the Axis of Meaning in Augurs and Dreams Chapter 11: Over-Measures of Modality in Kant and Julius Caesar : Actuality in the "Refutation of Idealism" and in the Execution of the Deed; The Principled Virtue of Commitment Chapter 12: Over-Measures of Modality in Kant and Julius Caesar : Necessity and the Principled Virtue of Freedom Chapter 13: Hegel's Book of Over-Measures, The Phenomenology of Spirit : is its Method a Principled Virtue? Dialectical Necessity in Solger's Tragic Irony vs. in Hegel's Begriff , and Hegel's Celebration of Shakespearean Imagination Appendix: Further Reading Bibliography Index About the Author.