Chapter 1: Professor or Friend? On the Intention and Manner of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, by Leon R. Kass
Chapter 2: Schiller's "Wily Odysseus"-A Poetic Hint-, by Gisela Berns
Chapter 3: Recognizing Odysseus: The Role of Signs in Odyssey 19-23, by Margaret Kirby
Chapter 4: Logos and Voice in Sophocles' Ajax, by Arlene Saxonhouse
Chapter 5: Civic Friendship in the Philoctetes, by Paul Ludwig
Chapter 6. Defeat into Victory: The Strategy of Odysseus in Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, by Adam Schulman
Chapter 7: Pindar's Wisdom: Terror at the Edge, Victory Joy at the Center, by William Mullen
Chapter 8. Lady Macbeth: The Tyrant's Wife, by Eva Brann
Chapter 9. Guarding the Salt-Water Girdle: Lovers and Kings in Cymbeline, by Kate Havard
Chapter 10: Falstaff Riseth Up, by Louis Petrich
Chapter 11. What Makes a Kingdom? Plants, Poetry, and Politics in Richard II, by Paul Wilford
Chapter 12: Reason in Madness, or Madness in Reason? On the Political Interstices of King Lear, by Jeff Smith
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