Acknowledgements Series Editors' Preface A Note on Pronouns Introduction: Shakespeare and His Audience 1. Shakespeare's Society and Theater 2. Shakespeare's Life on the Stage 3. The Comedy of Errors : Style as Comedy 4. The Comedy of Errors : Identity and the Marketplace 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream : Heterosexuality as Perversity 6. A Midsummer Night's Dream : Loving Difference 7. The Merchant of Venice : Money Talks 8.

The Merchant of Venice : Turning Less into More 9. As You Like It : Is Anyone Better Than Anyone Else? 10. As You Like It : Acting Like Yourself 11. Richard II : Royalty as Theater 12. Richard II : The King's Multiplicity 13. 1 Henry IV : Nation and Self Divided 14. 1 Henry IV : Recreating the Prince 15. Hamlet : The Death of Fathers 16.

Hamlet : Something Within 17. Hamlet : Hamlet's Mystique 18. Measure for Measure : Self-Usurpation 19. Measure for Measure : Craft Against Vice 20. Othello : Heterosexuality as Tragedy 21. Othello : Who Is the Real Othello? 22. Othello : Killing for Loving 23. The Winter's Tale : The One vs.

the Many 24. The Winter's Tale : Bearing Children 25. The Winter's Tale : The Resurrection of Comedy 26. The Tempest : Playwright as Tyrant 27. The Tempest : Gaining Through Loss Further Reading Selected Performances on DVD Index.