Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Prologue: Cordelia's Skirt XI
5. Introduction: Hamlet’s Inky Cloak 1
6. 1. Limitations of Character, Limits of Language 11
7. 2. Paranoia, Criticism, and Malvolio 26
8. 3. Pushing the Envelope: Supersonic Criticism 39
9. 4. The Famous Analyses of Henry the Fourth 55
10. 5 Hyperbolic Desire: Shakespeare's Lucrece 76
11. 6 Phantasmagoric Macbeth 97
12. 7 Shakespeare's Nothing 125
13. 8 What Is Shakespeare? 143
14. Epilogue: Yorick's Skull, Miranda's Memory 160
15. Notes 173
16. Index 231
17. Permissions 239