Table of Contents
Author's Note 9
Abbreviations of Shakespearean Titles 10
Preface 11
Introduction 15
Chapter 1 Philosophy and Poetry 31
The Historical Setting 31
Socrates on Poetry 33
Chapter 2 Falstaff: A Parody of Socrates 55
Plato's Phaedo; Aristophanes' The Clouds 55
Chapter 3 Plato's Voice 81
The Real and the Shadow 83
Self-Knowledge: The Mirror Metaphor 95
On Autonomy and Bondage 98
On Death and Intimations of Immortality 114
Chapter 4 Aristotle: Poetry and History 131
The Universal and the Particular 131
The Presence of Aristotle's Ethics 140
Chapter 5 On Thinking and Speaking 151
The Semantic Ascent 157
On Metaphor 171
The Magic of Names 195
Chapter 6 Subjectivity 209
Inwardness or Consciousness 209
Conscience or Moral Awareness 217
Knowledge of Other Minds 219
Chapter 7 The Pragmatic Dimension: Shakespeare's Presentation of Political and Moral Values 223
Virtue and Vice 223
Justice and Mercy 236
Notes 257
Selected Bibliography 267
Index 271