Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgements, Part I: The supply side of culture, 1. Introduction, 2. The bias of the world, 3. Shakespearean technologies, 4. Crying all the way to the bank, Part II The pathos of Western modernity, 5. Re-introduction: Essential Shakespeare, 6. Social time in The Winter's Tale , 7. Race and the comedy of abjection in Othello , 8. Calvin and Hobbes, or what was democracy, References. Index.

About the Author

Michael D. Bristol

Reviews

'A timely and important book.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

"sharp and funny...takes readers on an intellectually thrilling ride...If readers can recognise Bristol's gift, they'll receive cultural philosophy and criticism at its best...Not all critics reach this big-time understanding. In this, Bristol...not only follows Shakespeare, he succeeds him." - The Times Literary Supplement

' ... lively study ...' - The Observer