Table of Contents

Part 1 The Time is Out of Joint Chapter 2 1. What is Nature? What is Natural? Part 2 No Man or Woman Can Set Time Right Chapter 3 2. Who Am I? Dressing Up, Stripping Naked Chapter 4 3. Acting, Playing, Pretending, Disguising Chapter 5 4. Absolute Strangers Chapter 6 5. Judgment of Human Character: To Betray and To Be Betrayed Chapter 7 6. Love, Sex, Subversion: Political Drama, Family Drama Chapter 8 7. The Sphinx Called Time Chapter 9 8. Virtues and Vices; Guilt, Good, and Evil Chapter 11 A. The History Plays Chapter 12 1. Richard II Chapter 13 2. 1, 2, and 3 Henry IV Chapter 14 3. The Tragedy of Richard III Chapter 15 B. Three Roman Plays Chapter 16 1. Corialanus Chapter 17 2. Julius Caesar Chapter 18 3. Antony and Cleopatra

About the Author

Agnes Heller is Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Reviews

Shakespeare, who is truly our contemporary, provides the type of genuine insight and subtle understanding of history and politics that one rarely finds in more discursive treatises. Heller's fresh, sensitive readings are always thought-provoking. She effectively shows the richness and fertility of Shakespeare's dramas for thinking about the most intractable political and historical questions.
*Richard J. Bernstein, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin*