Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments Because I have been fortunate to talk about Shakespeare with so many lively and engaged students over the past few years in my seminars at Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research, my attempt to sharpen my understanding of Shakespeare has never felt like a lonely pursuit. Conversations and exchanges with two friends, Agnes Heller and Julia Reinhard Lupton, kept me mindful of what Shakespeare demands. I am grateful to them for their encouragement and camaraderie. Jay Bernstein deserves a special acknowledgment here. This book simply would not be what it is were it not for the education that he has given me over the past several years. Numerous thoughts he has shared or provoked have found their way into these pages. His singularly helpful set of comments on a late draft helped make this a better book and therefore is something for which readers of it will have reason to be thankful. But, as far as I am concerned, his response to the book, on its own, makes me happy to have written it. A sabbatical leave granted to me by the New School, for which I am grateful, allowed me to write these pages. An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared in Revue Internationale de Philosophie 63, no. 247 (2009). My father, Karl Kottman, read drafts of each chapter with indispensable scrutiny and acumen. Sakura, Sophia, and Helena make me thankful for more than I can acknowledge . ix This page intentionally left blank Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare This page intentionally left blank ...