Shakespeare in theory and practice

Introduction: practising with theory

Psychoanalysis and early modern culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne

Love and trompe-l'oeil: taxonomies of desire in Venus and Adonis

Tarquin dispossessed: expropriation and consent in The rape of Lucrece

Antinomies of desire and the sonnets

Peter Quince's ballad: memory, psychoanalysis, history and A midsummer night's dream

The illusion of empire: Elizabethan expansionism and Shakespeare's second tetralogy

Making histories then and now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V

The case of Hamlet's conscience

Iago the essayist.