Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Series Editor’s Preface viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Ecologies of Virtue
7. 1. Cordelia’s Fire 25
8. 2. Voice, Virtue, Veritas: On Truth and Vocal Feeling in King Lear 49
9. 3. Reading Virtues: Shakespeare’s Animals 70
10. Part II: Virtue’s Performances
11. 4. Shakespeare and the Virtue in Complaining 93
12. 5. Masculine Virtù and Feminine Virtue in Much Ado About Nothing 106
13. 6. The Virtue of Humour in King Lear 127
14. 7. Vita Energetica: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Shakespeare’s Maculate Theatre 148
15. Part III: Virtue in Transit
16. 8. Cymbeline and the Renewal of Constancy 169
17. 9. Cymbeline and the ‘Swan’s Nest’ of Britain: Insularity, Chastity and Imogen’s Transnational Virtues 189
18. 10. Sufi Theoeroticism, the Sophianic Feminine and Desdemona’s Tragic Heroism 205
19. Part IV: Sustaining Virtue
20. 11. Enduring the Eventual: A Virtuous Way of Reading Shakespeare 231
21. 12. Sustaining Courage in the Humanities: The Example of Hamlet 252
22. 13. On the Virtue of Grief 272
23. Afterword 287
24. Notes on Contributors 295
25. Bibliography 300
26. Index 322