Laurie Maguire 
Studying Shakespeare [PDF ebook] 
A Guide to the Plays

Acknowledgements.
Conventions.
List Of Illustrations.
1. Private Life: Shakespeare And Selfhood:.
The Divided Self.
Comedy Of Errors; As You Like It.
Naming The Self.
Troilus And Cressida; Romeo And Juliet; Taming Of The
Shrew.
The Self And Language.
Measure For Measure; Troilus And Cressida.
The National Self.
Othello; King Lear.
The Self At Play.
Love’s Labour’s Lost; Taming Of The
Shrew.
2. Marital Life: Shakespeare And Romance:.
Love And Hazard.
Merchant Of Venice.
Love And Friendship.
Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Winter’s Tale;
Two Noble Kinsmen.
Love And Madness.
Midsummer Night’s Dream; Cymbeline;
All’s Well; Measure For Measure; Troilus And
Cressida.
Marriage And Identity.
Comedy Of Errors; All’s Well; Taming Of The
Shrew.
Love And Abuse.
The Taming Of The Shrew; Merry Wives Of Windsor;
Othello; Troilus And Cressida.
3. Political Life: Shakespeare And Government:.
Acting Politics.
3 Henry 6; Richard 3; 1 Henry 4; 2 Henry
4; Henry 5; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar.
Surviving Politics.
Richard 2; Macbeth.
The Personal Versus The Political.
Richard 2; Henry 4; Henry 5.
4. Public Life: Shakespeare And Social Structures:.
Money.
Macbeth; Merchant Of Venice; Romeo And Juliet; Merry Wives Of
Windsor; Timon Of Athens.
Women And Public Life.
Antony And Cleopatra; King John; Measure For Measure.
Language.
Titus Andronicus; Much Ado About Nothing; All’s
Well.
5.Real Life: Shakespeare And Suffering:.
Mingled Yarns.
Twelfth Night; King Lear; Much Ado.
Mourning.
Hamlet; Twelfth Night.
The Family.
King Lear; Macbeth.
Anger And Revenge.
Titus Andronicus.
Forgiveness.
Cymbeline; Pericles; Winter’s Tale; Tempest; Henry
8; Two Noble Kinsmen.
Index.

Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Oxford University. She is the author of Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996) and co-editor of Textual Formations and Reformations (1998), among other publications.