Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. Preface ix
4. Prologue 1
5. 1 Reading the Intercultural: Cultures of Reading 5
6. 2 Intercultural Signs: Textual Anthropology 31
7. 3 Desire, Laughter, and the Social Unconscious 80
8. 4 Historicizing the Unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean Farce 116
9. 5 Coriolanus and the Historical Text 151
10. 6 Macbeth in Kunju Opera 189
11. Epilogue 219
12. Notes 233
13. Works Cited 275
14. Index 287