| Contents |
Introduction : Early Modern Political Aesthetics / Christopher Pye -- Part One : An Early Modern Aesthetic -- "No Toy But Was Her Pattern" : Renaissance Friendship and the Rise of Aesthetics in The Two Noble Kinsmen / Andrew Sisson -- "No Cause, No Cause" : King Lear and the Space of the World / Christopher Pye -- Thomas Rymer, Poetic Justice, and the Limits of Representation : Dispatches from the Representative Regime of Art / Russ Leo -- Part Two : Aesthetics and the Politics of the Representable -- Shakespeare and the Plebs / Tracey Sedinger -- Timon's Hunger in the Forest: Toward a Political Aesthetics of Being beside Oneself / Joan Pong Linton -- From Political Theology to Political Aesthetics in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Jennifer R. Rust -- "Need Makes Good Schollers": Spenser and the Poverty of Aesthetics / Joel M. Dodson -- Part Three: Island Voices -- "I . . . Will Cry It O'er Again" : Virgil, The Tempest, and the Aesthetics of Imitation / Lydia C. Heinrichs -- The Political, the Aesthetic, and the Utopian in The Tempest: A Shakespearean Dialectic Unfolded / Hugh Grady -- "A Diversity of Sounds, All Horrible" : The Political Aesthetics of Soundscapes in The Tempest / Colby Gordon -- Shakespeare's Sturm, Caliban's Drang : Walter Benjamin and The Tempest / Julia Reinhard Lupton |
