Abstract
Part 1 Values and perceptions: Jesus, Shakespeare and Karl Marx - Timon of Athens and The Merchant of Venice - parables for the city Troilus and Cressida - parables for the city Shakespeare and the fashion of these times. Part 2 Catastrophes of history: the frame of disorder - Henry VI Richard II and the music of men's lives Julius Caesar and the catastrophes of history myth and history in Shakespeare's Rome Shakespeare's language of the unconscious - the psychogenesis of terrorism. Part 3 Tragic sacrifice: Hamlet the bonesetter blood and wine - tragic ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka the theatre of Othello upon such sacrifices... - King Lear. Part 4 Comedy, human and divine: the theatre of God's judgements All's that ends Hell and for Measure history and histrionics in Cymbeline Pericles and the dream of immortality The Tempest - conventions of art and empire the island of The Tempest.
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