Contemporary pasts
Unraveling mythical order in Caryl Phillips's The nature of blood
The Irigarayan "third language" in Liz Jensen's Ark baby
Trapped in the "negative gradient": traumatic dis-membering in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
"These weeping eyes, those seeing tears": the flow of memory from fugitive pieces to Shakespeare
Shakespearean presents
Turning gender and plot in The merchant of Venice
"God me such usage send": Desdemona's lyric response in Othello
"I am heir to my affection": re-visioning family and love in The winter's tale
Afterward: the myths redeployed.