Некоторые части этой книги ранее были опубликованы в других изданиях, а именно:

«Myth and Ritual in A Midsummer Night's Dream,» in Memorial Lectures, ed. Harry F. Camp (Stanford University, November 1972), 1–17.

« ‘To Entrap the Wisest’: A Reading of The Merchant of Venice,» in Literature and Society, ed. Edward W. Said (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), 100–119.

«Hamlet’s Dull Revenge,» Stanford Literature Review 1 (Fall 1984), 159200.

«The Politics of Desire in Troilus and Cressida,» in Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, ed. Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman (London: Methuen, 1985), 188–209.

«Bottom’s One–Man Show,» in The Current in Criticism, ed. Clayton Koelb and Virgil Lokke (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1987), 99–122.

«Jealousy in The Winter's Tale,» in Alphonse Juilland: D'unepassion l'autre, Stanford French and Italian Studies 53 (Saratoga, Calif.: Anma Libri, 1987), 39–62.

«Love Delights in Praises: A Reading of The Two Gentlemen of Verona,» Philosophy and Literature (Autumn 1989), 231–247.

«Do You Love Him Because I Do!: Mimetic Interaction in Shakespeare’s Comedies,» in Rene Cirard and Western Literature, special issue of Helios 17, no. 1 (Spring 1990), 89–108.

«Croyez–voux vous–meme a votre propre theorie?» La Regle dufeu 1 (June 1990), 254–77.

«The Crime and Conversion of Leontes in The Winter's Tale» Religion & Literature (October 1990).

Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's «Julius Caesar,» The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature (Bennington College, Vt., 1990).

«Envy of So Rich a Thing: The Rape of Lucrece,» in Festschrift for Albert Cook (Saratoga Springs, N. Y.: Skidmore College, 1990).

«’Tis Not So Sweet Now As It Was Before: Orsino and Olivia in Twelfth Night,» in Proceedings of the symposium «Paradoxes of Self–Reference» held at Stanford University, May 20–21, 1988, special issue of Stanford Literature Review 7, nos. 1–2 (1990).