Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. Sublations in Tragedy and Comedy 1. A Hegelian Reading of Good and Bad Luck in Shakespearean Drama ( Phen. of Spirit , King Lear , Othello , Hamlet , A Midsummer Night's Dream ) 2. Tearing the Fabric: Hegel's Antigone, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, and Kinship-State Conflict ( Phen. of Spirit C. 6, Judith Butler's Antigone , Coriolanus ) 3. Aufhebung and Anti-Aufhebung : Geist and Ghosts in Hamlet ( Phen.
of Spirit , Hamlet ) 4. The Problem of Genius in King Lear : Hegel on the Feeling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder ( Anthropology and Psychology in the Encyclopaedia Philosophy of Mind , King Lear ) PART II. Ethical Life and the History Plays: The Development of Negative Infinite Judgment and the Limits of the Sovereign Self Section 1: Sovereign Alienation and the Development of Wit 5. Richard II's Mirror and the Alienation of the Universal Will (of the "I" that Is a "We") ( Richard II , Phen. of Spirit C. 5) 6. Falstaff and the Politics of Wit: Negative Infinite Judgment in a Culture of Alienation ( Henry IV parts I & II , Phen. of Spirit C.
6, Philosophy of Right ) Section 2: Sovereign Deceit and the Rejection of Wit 7. Henry V's Unchangeableness: His Rejection of Wit and His Posture of Virtue Reinterpreted in the Light of Hegel's Theory of Virtue ( Philosophy of Right , Henry V ) 8. Hegel's Theory of Crime and Evil: (Re)tracing the Rights of the Sovereign Self ( Aesthetics , Phen. of Spirit , Phil. of Right , Richard II through to Henry V ) 9. Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Henry V: Conscience, Hypocrisy, Self-Deceit and the Tragedy of Ethical Life ( Phil. of Right , Richard III , Hamlet , Macbeth , Henry V ) Section 3: Sovereign Wit and the End of Alienation 10. Negation of the Negative Infinite Judgment vs.
Sublation of It: Punishment vs. Pardon in The Philosophy of Right and Henry VIII ( Phil. of Right , Phen. of Spirit C. 6 and Henry VIII ) PART III. Universal Wit: The Romance Plays and Absolute Knowing 11. Universal Wit--The Absolute Theater of Identity ( Phen. of Spirit C.
6 and 8, Pericles , The Tempest ) 12. Absolute Infections and Their Cure ( Phen. of Spirit C. 6, The Winter's Tale ) Notes Bibliography Index.