Shakespeare's Curse

Introduction; 1. Richard III and His Repudiated Theatrical Patrimony; 1.1. Anne and the Supplement of the Eucharist; 1.2 Margaret and the Excommunication of the Old Liturgy; 1.3 Edward IV, the Oath and the Enactment of the Social Contract; 1.4 Hastings and the Fatal Prophecies; 1.5 Henry VI and the Standing Army of the Dead; 1.6 Clarence and the Diabolical Allegories; 1.7 Buckingham and the Grounds of Spectacle; 2. King John and the Ordeal of the Bastard "Commodity"; 3. King Lear and the Naturalized State of Exception; 3.1 Cordelia and the Double Face of Equity; 3.2 Goneril and Regan within the Liberties of Nature; 3.3 Kent's Interior Exile; 3.4 Edgar and the Benedictio Vacui; 3.5 The Fool and the Fateful Bonds of Commerce; 3.6 Storm still and the Perpetual Collapse of the Last Judgment