In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay Stockholder reveals the rich inner lives of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic characters and the ways in which their emotions and actions shape and are shaped by the social and political world around them.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction: True Minds
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Merchant of Venice
• Richard II
• The Henry IV Plays
• Hamlet
• Troilus and Cressida
• Othello
• Macbeth
• King Lear
• Antony and Cleopatra
• The Tempest
• Epilogue