Shakespeare's characterization: an existential view -- Patterns of love in Twelfth night -- The merchant of Venice: an existential comedy -- Shakespeare's allegory of love -- Shakespeare's existential tragedy -- Richard III and Richard II: two forms of alienation -- The problem of identity in Troilus and Cressida -- Fools of time in Macbeth -- Solitariness of the victim in Othello -- The protagonist's dilemma in Timon of Athens -- Marcus Brutus: the divided self -- Coriolanus -- the roots of alienation -- The ambivalence of Caliban.
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Summary
An interpretation of Shakespeare through the spiritual crisis of his chief characters.