Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi
4. SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE ix
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I OUR CYNIC LEGACY
7. 1. Cynicism and the Courage of Truth 33
8. 2. The Realist Turn: Parrhêsia, Character and the Limits of Didacticism 73
9. PART II SHAKESPEARE’S CYNICS
10. 3. Shakespeare’s Bitter Fool: The Politics and Aesthetics of Free Speech 119
11. 4. Cynicism, Melancholy and Hamlet’s Memento Moriae 146
12. 5. Cash is King: Timon, Diogenes and the Search for Sovereign Freedom 188
13. Coda 225
14. Bibliography 229
15. Index 242