Introduction : Early Modern Political Aesthetics / Christopher Pye
Part One : An Early Modern Aesthetic
"No Toy But Was Her Pattern" : Renaissance Friendship and the Rise of Aesthetics in The Two Noble Kinsmen / Andrew Sisson
"No Cause, No Cause" : King Lear and the Space of the World / Christopher Pye
Thomas Rymer, Poetic Justice, and the Limits of Representation : Dispatches from the Representative Regime of Art / Russ Leo
Part Two : Aesthetics and the Politics of the Representable
Shakespeare and the Plebs / Tracey Sedinger
Timon's Hunger in the Forest: Toward a Political Aesthetics of Being beside Oneself / Joan Pong Linton
From Political Theology to Political Aesthetics in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Jennifer R. Rust
"Need Makes Good Schollers": Spenser and the Poverty of Aesthetics / Joel M. Dodson
Part Three: Island Voices
"I . . . Will Cry It O'er Again" : Virgil, The Tempest, and the Aesthetics of Imitation / Lydia C. Heinrichs
The Political, the Aesthetic, and the Utopian in The Tempest: A Shakespearean Dialectic Unfolded / Hugh Grady
"A Diversity of Sounds, All Horrible" : The Political Aesthetics of Soundscapes in The Tempest / Colby Gordon
Shakespeare's Sturm, Caliban's Drang : Walter Benjamin and The Tempest / Julia Reinhard Lupton