Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Preface ix
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: Shakespeare and the Oikumene
8. 1. Wisdom Ecology: Mapping the Ancient Wisdom World into the Future 23
9. 2. Sophia on the Cydnus: Antony and Cleopatra as Wisdom Literature 46
10. 3. ‘Like Prayers Divine’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets as Spiritual Exercise 73
11. 4. Morality on Stage: Free Will, Counsel and Self-Counsel in Shakespeare and Glissenti 95
12. PART II: Oikeiôsis and Ecology
13. 5. Jaques the Pythagorean: Ecognosis and Pythagorean Wisdom Literature in As You Like It 119
14. 6. Sovereign Care and Natural Goodness: Stoic Wisdom in The Winter’s Tale 146
15. PART III: A Kinaesthetic Ethics of the Heart-Mind
16. 7. Prajñāpāramitā and the Buddhist Path of Wisdom in King Lear 171
17. 8. Loving ‘Not Wisely But Too Well’: Race, Religion and Sufi Theoeroticism in Othello 200
18. 9. No Magistrate, No Engine, No Oil: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the Kinaesthetic Wisdom of The Tempest 237
19. PART IV: Grace-Notes of Creative Wisdom
20. 10. Holding a Space for Possibility: A Conversation with Madeline Sayet 269
21. 11. Wisdom and Welcome in Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong 285
22. 12. wétos, vitus, vecchia, vita 298
23. 13. The Buddha and the Bard: On Shakespeare and Mindfulness 311
24. Afterword: Shakespeare’s Open O: Sounding Global Wisdoms into the Future 323
25. Notes on Contributors 331
26. Works Cited 336
27. Index 369