Sanford Budick is Emeritus Professor of English at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was formerly Professor of English at Cornell University. He has published six monographs, two of which won the Hanford Award of the Milton Society and has edited three collections of essays on key issues in literary studies.

In this brilliant pairing of plays, Sanford Budick demonstrates how Shakespeare achieves genuine intersubjectivity by negating the theatricalizing impulses of the ego. On every page of this profound and moving book, knowledge ripens into wisdom, which Budick has earned in a lifetime of serious dialogue with philosophy and literature.

• Acknowledgments1. Terms of Discussion2. "Conversion" of the "Nothing" by the Instrumentality of The Merchant of Venice3. Towards an Escape from Theatricalization: Hamlet and As You Like It4. The Second Epoché of Othello and The Merchant of Venice5. Intentionality toward Being: Blessing in King Lear and The Winter’s TaleRetrospect

Sanford Budick is Emeritus Professor of English at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was formerly Professor of English at Cornell University. He has published six monographs, two of which won the Hanford Award of the Milton Society and has edited three collections of essays on key issues in literary studies.

In this brilliant pairing of plays, Sanford Budick demonstrates how Shakespeare achieves genuine intersubjectivity by negating the theatricalizing impulses of the ego. On every page of this profound and moving book, knowledge ripens into wisdom, which Budick has earned in a lifetime of serious dialogue with philosophy and literature.

• Acknowledgments1. Terms of Discussion2. "Conversion" of the "Nothing" by the Instrumentality of The Merchant of Venice3. Towards an Escape from Theatricalization: Hamlet and As You Like It4. The Second Epoché of Othello and The Merchant of Venice5. Intentionality toward Being: Blessing in King Lear and The Winter’s TaleRetrospect

Sanford Budick is Emeritus Professor of English at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was formerly Professor of English at Cornell University. He has published six monographs, two of which won the Hanford Award of the Milton Society and has edited three collections of essays on key issues in literary studies.

In this brilliant pairing of plays, Sanford Budick demonstrates how Shakespeare achieves genuine intersubjectivity by negating the theatricalizing impulses of the ego. On every page of this profound and moving book, knowledge ripens into wisdom, which Budick has earned in a lifetime of serious dialogue with philosophy and literature.

• Acknowledgments1. Terms of Discussion2. "Conversion" of the "Nothing" by the Instrumentality of The Merchant of Venice3. Towards an Escape from Theatricalization: Hamlet and As You Like It4. The Second Epoché of Othello and The Merchant of Venice5. Intentionality toward Being: Blessing in King Lear and The Winter’s TaleRetrospect