(print) xxi, 454 p. ; 24 cm

Preface ix -- Introduction xi -- 1 HUMANISM AND ANTIHUMANISM -- 1 Nosce Teipsum : Learning the Method 3 -- 2 Nosce Teipsum : Charting New Courses 26 -- 2 THEORY AND ADAPTATION -- 3 Microcosm and Macrocosm : Framing the Picture of Man 43 -- 4 The Comedy of Errors : Losing and Finding Oneself 62 -- 5 Loves Labor's Lost : Seeking Oneself 78 -- 6 Richard II : Looking into the Mirror of Grief 97 -- 7 Henry V : Patterning after Perfection 113 -- 3 PROBLEMS AND AMBIGUITIES -- 8 The Real versus the Ideal : Taking a Skeptic View 131 -- 9 Jidius Caesar : Taking an Uncertain Road 150 -- 10 Hamlet : Probing a Restless Self 172 -- 11 Troilus and Cressida : Fragmenting a Divided Self 195 -- 12 Measure for Measure : Looking into Oneself 215 -- 4 ACHIEVEMENT AND SYNTHESIS -- 13 Will and Passion : Heightening the Self 239 -- 14 Othello : Subjecting the Self 259 -- 15 King Lear : Valuing the Self 281 -- 16 King Lear : Stripping the Self 305 -- 17 Macbeth : Losing the Self 327 -- 18 The Tempest : The Mastered Self 356 -- APPENDIXES -- A Hamlet : "What is a man?" 387 -- B Lucrece : "Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?" 390 -- C Hamlet : "What a piece of work is a man!" 39P -- Notes 405 -- Index 437