Wonder in Shakespeare

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Wonder, Amazement, and Surprise: Beginning a Stunning Story....Pages 9-16
Resurrections of the Living and the Dead: Natural and Spiritual Bodies and Souls....Pages 17-40
”Die to Live”: Various Forms of Empathetic Wonder....Pages 41-52
The Metaphorical Use of the Prodigious Birth Tradition....Pages 53-68
More of a Prodigy than a Prophecy....Pages 69-83
Wonder, Awe, and Admiration: Shakespeare’s Cabinets of Curiosity....Pages 85-95
Transalpine Wonders: Shakespeare’s Marvelous Aesthetics....Pages 97-108
Back Matter....Pages 109-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-125
Introduction....Pages 127-129
Embodying Wonder....Pages 131-138
The Aesthetic Resurrection of the ”Death-mark’d” Lovers in Romeo and Juliet ....Pages 139-147
The “Spectacle of Conversion,” Wonder, and Film in The Merchant of Venice ....Pages 149-163
God Save the King: Richard II in Wonder-land....Pages 165-174
A World of (No) Wonder, or No Wonder-wounded Hearers Here: Toward a Theory on the Vanishing Mediation of “No Wonder” in Shakespeare’s Theater....Pages 175-194
Passing for Truth: Wonder Tales and their Audiences in Othello ....Pages 195-213
Back Matter....Pages 215-226