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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix

INTRODUCTION 3

1. AN AUSPICIOUS OPENING 15
The Taming of the Shrew

2. THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT 26
King Richard III
3. STAR-CROSSED LOVERS 41
Romeo and Juliet

4. A FAIRY TALE FOR GROWN-UPS 60
A Midsummer Night's Dream

5. THE HOLLOW CROWN 71
Richard II; Henry IV, Parts I and II; Henry V
6. SOPHISTICATED COMEDY 85
Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It;
Twelfth Night

7. A TIDE IN MEN'S LIVES 100
Julius Caesar

8. I KNOW NOT SEEMS 114
Hamlet
9. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER 151
Othello, the Moor of Venice
10. FATAL VISION 175
Macbeth

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