Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vi
4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Practising with Theory 1
5. Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne 15
6. Chapter 3 Love as Trompe-l’oeil : Taxonomies of Desire in Venus and Adonis 34
7. Chapter 4 Tarquin Dispossessed: Expropriation and Consent in The Rape of Lucrece 54
8. Chapter 5 Antinomies of Desire and the Sonnets 73
9. Chapter 6 Peter Quince’s Ballad: Memory, Psychoanalysis, History and A Midsummer Night’s Dream 94
10. Chapter 7 The Illusion of Empire: Elizabethan Expansionism and Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy 109
11. Chapter 8 Making Histories Then and Now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V 119
12. Chapter 9 The Case of Hamlet’s Conscience 139
13. Chapter 10 Iago the Essayist 157
14. Notes 172
15. Index 203