Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction and Acknowledgements 9
4. 1 Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque 15
5. 2 Hyperbole and Melancholy: The Baroque’s Key Structure of Feeling 33
6. 3 Plays, Players, Playing: The Multiple Theatricality of the Baroque 59
7. 4 Shakespeare: Late Writings and the Female Baroque 83
8. 5 Towards a Baroque Poetics I: Shake-speares Sonnets 111
9. 6 Towards a Baroque Poetics II ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ and ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ 133
10. 7 Shakespearean Baroque: Tragedy in an Emptying World 153
11. 8 Shakespearean Baroque: From Tragedy to Tragicomedy 177
12. 9 The Tempest. Plateauing and the Gradual Immanentism of the Baroque: Shakespeare, Montaigne, Bruno, Vermeer 199
13. Index 221