Acknowledgements
Note on texts
List of illustrations
Introduction: Embodying shame
1. Thumb-biting: Performing Toxic Masculinity in Romeo and Juliet
2. Figging: Spanish Anxieties and Ancient Grudges in Pistol’s Henriad
3. Spitting at Richard: Taming the Beast in Richard III
4. Spitting at Shylock: Shameful Conversion in The Merchant of Venice
5. Horning: Fragile Masculinity in Othello
6. Hand-washing: Female Shame in Macbeth
7. Kneeling: Passive Aggression in Coriolanus
8. Stillness: Female Constancy in The Winter’s Tale
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index