Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; S.Barker.- Shakespeare's Problem Plays: Concepts and Perspectives; V.Thomas.- All's Well That Ends Well and the Tale of the Chivalric Quest; L.Scragg.- The Political Effects of Gender and Class in All's Well That Ends Well; P.Erickson.- Subjectivity, Desire and Female Friendship in All's Well That Ends Well; C.Asp.- Transgression and Surveillance in Measure for Measure; J.Dollimore.- London in Measure for Measure; L.S.Marcus.- Love's Tyranny Inside-Out in the Problem Plays: Yours, Mine and Counter-Mine; R.Hillman.- 'Tricks we Play on the Dead': Making History in Troilus and Cressida; H.James.- Invading Bodies.- Bawdy Exchanges: Disease, Desire, and Representation; V.Traub.- Fragments of Nationalism in Troilus and Cressida; M.Greenfield.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.