Part I THE TWO NATURES

I. The Chronicle Play and the Drama of Ideas

II. The Benignant Nature of Bacon, Hooker, and Lear

III. The Malignant Nature of Hobbes, Edmund, and the Wicked Daughters

IV. The Two Natures and the Fission of Elizabethan Society

Part II THE PLAY OF KING LEAR; and Shakespeare's Inner Biography up to 1606

Chapter

I. Edmund's Ancestry

a. Richard III

b. King John

c. Henry IV, Parts I and

II. The Fool and Handy-dandy

III. Cordelia

a. Cordelia and Shakespeare Criticism

b. Cordelia as Nature

Killing the King Page

a. Julius Caesar

b. Hamlet

c. Troilus and Cressida

d. Othello and Macbeth

Part III THE POET'S SOCIETY

I. Romantic Criticism and Eternal Nature

II. Shakespearian Drama and Elizabethan Nature

III. Literature and the Romantic Idea

IV. The Poet and the Good Man

V. The Poet's Society