Rational Shakespeare

Michael Wainwright is Associate Lecturer of English and Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous monographs include Darwin and Faulkner’s Novels: Evolution and Southern Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Game Theory and Postwar American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

• Chapter 1 Peter Ramus and the Basis of Logic.- Chapter 2 Thomas Smith, Edward de Vere, and William Cecil.- Chapter 3 Peter Ramus, Edward de Oxford, and the Basis of Logic.- Chapter 4 Ramus’s Method.- Chapter 5 The Strengths and Weakness of Ramism.- Chapter 6 Introduction: Ramism and Game Theory.- Chapter 7 The Banker and His Player.- Chapter 8 Oxford, Ramus, and Love’s Labour’s Lost.- Chapter 9 Oxford, Ramus, and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.- Chapter 10 Deadlock and the Prisoner’s Dilemma in King John.- Chapter 11 Assurance Games in Antony and Cleopatra (Part 1).- Chapter 12 Assurance Games in Antony and Cleopatra (Part 2).- Chapter 13 Chicken in King Henry V (Part 1).- Chapter 14 Chicken in King Henry V (Part 2).- Chapter 15 Conclusion.