Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: impure aesthetics Part I. A Shakespearean Aesthetic: Into the Woods outside Athens: 2. A Midsummer Night's Dream - eros and the aesthetic 3. Modernity, usury, and art in Timon of Athens Part II. The Aesthetics of Death and Mourning: 4. Hamlet as mourning play 5. Beautiful death in Romeo and Juliet Conclusion: the critical present Bibliography Index.
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