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

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

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

«Hamlet’s Dull Revenge,»Stanford Literature Review1 (Fall 1984), 159200.

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

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

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

«Love Delights in Praises: A Reading ofThe Two Gentlemen of Verona,» Philosophy and Literature (Autumn1989), 231–247.

«Do You Love Him Because I Do!:Mimetic Interaction in Shakespeare’s Comedies,» inRene Cirard and Western Literature,special issue ofHelios17, no. 1 (Spring 1990), 89–108.

«Croyez–voux vous–meme a votre propre theorie?»La Regle dufeu1 (June 1990), 254–77.

«The Crime and Conversion of Leontes inThe 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,»inFestschrift for Albert Cook(Saratoga Springs, N. Y.: Skidmore College, 1990).

«’Tis Not So Sweet Now As It Was Before: Orsino and Olivia inTwelfth Night,»in Proceedings of the symposium «Paradoxes of Self–Reference» held at Stanford University, May 20–21, 1988, special issue ofStanford Literature Review7, nos. 1–2 (1990).