Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I Corrosive Solace
6. CHAPTER 1 Between a Rock and a Hard Place The Contingent Politics of She-Tragedy 49
7. CHAPTER 2 The Other Macbeth: Shakespeare in Siddons’s Hands 94
8. CHAPTER 3 Thalia Inter Alia: The Biopolitical Turn in Post-American Comedy 137
9. PART II Interrupted Futures
10. CHAPTER 4 Interrupted Histories: Henry the Eighth, Coriolanus, and the Disclosure of Biopolitics 181
11. CHAPTER 5 What Unhappiness Does: The Futures of Post-Revolutionary Comedy 227
12. CHAPTER 6 Utopian Discomfort: Pizarro’s Bridge to the Cosmopolitical Future 266
13. CONCLUSION 307
14. NOTES 321
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 341
16. INDEX 355