Table of Contents

Foreword by Michael Witmore; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Richard Wilson; Part I: The Play's The Thing; 1. Paul Kottmann: "'The Charm Dissolves Apace:" Shakespeare and the Self-dissolution of Drama' (The Tempest, Aristotle and Hegel); 2. Jennifer Ann Bates: 'Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection' (Hamlet and Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postcscript); 3. Thomas Stern: 'Schopenhauer's Shakespeare: The Genius on the World Stage'; 4. Peter Holbrook: 'Nietzsche's Shakespeare'; 5. James A. Knapp: 'Richard Il's Silent, Tortured Soul' (Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and Levinas); Part II: That Wide Gap; 6. Andrew Cutrofello: 'Is Othello Jealous? Coleridge and Russell contra Wittgenstein and Cavell'; 7. Edward S. Casey: 'Hamlet on the Edge' (Hamlet, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty); 8. Howard Caygill: 'Levinas and Shakespeare'; 9. Christopher Pye: 'Contra Schmitt: Law, Aesthetics, and Absolutism in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale' (Carl Schmitt); 10. Julia Reinhard Lupton 'Arendt in Italy: Or, the Taming of the Shrew' (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito); Part III: Damnable Iteration; 11. Richard Wilson: 'Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans; 12. Catherine Belsey: 'Antinomies of Desire: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Sonnets' (Jacques Lacan and Francois Lyotard); 13. Bernard Freydberg "'No" as Affirmation: A Continental-Philosophical Reading of Coriolanus'; 14. Christopher Norris: 'Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, and Derrida'; 15. Nicholas Royle 'Miracle Play' (Jacques Derrida).

About the Author

Jennifer Bates is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. Richard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London.