SHIRLEY NELSON GARNER is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a co-editor, with Claire Kahane and Madelon Sprengnether, of The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation; and a contributor to the Personal Narratives Group's Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. MADELON SPRENGNETHER is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis and co-editor of Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism and The (M)other Tongue.

• Introduction: The Gendered Subject of Shakespearean Tragedy, Madelon Sprengnether1. Tragic SubjectsHistory into Tragedy: The Case of Richard III, Phyllis RackinA Woman of Letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, Sara Eaton"Documents in Madness": REading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture, Carol Thomas Neely"Born of Woman": Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth, Janet Adelman"Magic of Bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power, Coppélia Kahn2. Implicating OthelloDesdemona's Disposition, Lena Cowen Orlin"The Moor of Venice," or the Indian on the Renaissance English Stage, Margo HendricksThe Heroics of Marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi, Mary Beth Rose3. Shakespeare Our Contemporary?The Fatal Cleopatra, Carol CookWhat's Love Got to Do with It? Reading the Liberal Humanist Romance in Antony and Cleopatra, Linda CharnesShakespeare in My Time and Place, Shirley Nelson GarnerLeaving Shakespeare, Gayle GreeneNotes on Contributors Index

SHIRLEY NELSON GARNER is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a co-editor, with Claire Kahane and Madelon Sprengnether, of The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation; and a contributor to the Personal Narratives Group's Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. MADELON SPRENGNETHER is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis and co-editor of Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism and The (M)other Tongue.

• Introduction: The Gendered Subject of Shakespearean Tragedy, Madelon Sprengnether1. Tragic SubjectsHistory into Tragedy: The Case of Richard III, Phyllis RackinA Woman of Letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, Sara Eaton"Documents in Madness": REading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture, Carol Thomas Neely"Born of Woman": Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth, Janet Adelman"Magic of Bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power, Coppélia Kahn2. Implicating OthelloDesdemona's Disposition, Lena Cowen Orlin"The Moor of Venice," or the Indian on the Renaissance English Stage, Margo HendricksThe Heroics of Marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi, Mary Beth Rose3. Shakespeare Our Contemporary?The Fatal Cleopatra, Carol CookWhat's Love Got to Do with It? Reading the Liberal Humanist Romance in Antony and Cleopatra, Linda CharnesShakespeare in My Time and Place, Shirley Nelson GarnerLeaving Shakespeare, Gayle GreeneNotes on Contributors Index

SHIRLEY NELSON GARNER is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a co-editor, with Claire Kahane and Madelon Sprengnether, of The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation; and a contributor to the Personal Narratives Group's Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. MADELON SPRENGNETHER is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis and co-editor of Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism and The (M)other Tongue.

• Introduction: The Gendered Subject of Shakespearean Tragedy, Madelon Sprengnether1. Tragic SubjectsHistory into Tragedy: The Case of Richard III, Phyllis RackinA Woman of Letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, Sara Eaton"Documents in Madness": REading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture, Carol Thomas Neely"Born of Woman": Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth, Janet Adelman"Magic of Bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power, Coppélia Kahn2. Implicating OthelloDesdemona's Disposition, Lena Cowen Orlin"The Moor of Venice," or the Indian on the Renaissance English Stage, Margo HendricksThe Heroics of Marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi, Mary Beth Rose3. Shakespeare Our Contemporary?The Fatal Cleopatra, Carol CookWhat's Love Got to Do with It? Reading the Liberal Humanist Romance in Antony and Cleopatra, Linda CharnesShakespeare in My Time and Place, Shirley Nelson GarnerLeaving Shakespeare, Gayle GreeneNotes on Contributors Index