Shakespeare and the question of theory

Content: Introduction / Patricia Parker --
[I. Language, rhetoric, deconstruction] --
"Tongue-tied our queen?': the deconstruction of prescence in The winter's tale / Howard Felperin --
"Ariachne's broken woof" : the rehtoric of citation on Troilus and Cressida / Elizabeth Freund --
Shakespeare's poetical character in Twelfthnight / Geoffrey H. Hartman --
Shakespeare and rhetoric : "dilation" and "delation" : in Othello / Patricia Parker --
[II. The woman's part] --
Representing Ophelia : women, madness, and the responsibilities of feminist criticism / Elaine Showalter --
"The blazon of sweet beauty's best" : Shakespeare's Lucrece / Nancy Vickers --
Shakespearean inscriptions : the voicing of power / Jonathan Goldberg --
The turn of the shrew / Joel Fineman --
[III. Politics, economy, history] --
Shakespeare and the exorcists / Stephen Greenblatt --
The politics of desire in Troilus and Cressida / Rene Girard --
Psychoanalyzing the Shakespeare text : the first three scenes of the Henriad / Harry Berger, Jr. --
Pitiful thrivers : failed husbandry in the sonnets / Thomas M. Greene --
"Who does the wolf love?" : Coriolanus and the interpretations of politics / Stanley Cavell --
[IV. he question of Hamlet] --
Mimesis in Hamlet / Robert Weimann --
Hamlet : letters and spirits / Margaret W. Ferguson --
Telmah / Terence Hawkes.