Thinking arrivals: Rupture, event, subject -- The subject of love in Romeo and Juliet -- Love's late arrival: wonder and terror in Othello's "high-wrought flood" -- The ghostly event(s) of Hamlet -- Macbeth: the arrival of evil -- The Cordelia event: seizing the vanished in King Lear
Summary
Provides a novel account of how Shakespeare constructs his great tragic characters