prejudice and presumption in Shakespeare and his time /
Robert Brustein
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2009
vii, 280 p. ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-268) and index
Introduction: the hidden imposthume -- Misogyny: the Hamlet obsession -- Effemiphobia: the Osric courtier -- Machismo: the Hotspur model -- Elitism and mobocracy: from Jack Cade to Caliban -- Racialism: the Moor and the Jew -- Intelligent design: Lear's abyss -- Afterword: lancing the canker