'A deeply imaginative book … By the time we come to the end of the book we realize how inexhaustibly fruitful his cumulative method is.' Shakespeare Survey 59
Introduction; 1. Titus Andronicus: This was thy daughter; 2. Romeo and Juliet: what's in a name? 3. Hamlet: a figure like your father; 4. Troilus and Cressida: this is and is not Cressid; 5. Othello: I took you for that cunning whore of Venice; 6. King Lear: we have no such daughter; 7. Macbeth: a deed without a name; Conclusion.