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Timon of Athens

Shakespeare’s Pessimistic Tragedy

Rolf Soellner

Frontmatter and Preface

1. Facing the Depth
2. At the Boundary of Tragedy
3. The Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
4. The Rise of Alcibiades
5. Timon the Misanthrope
6. Apemantus and the Others
7. Patterns and Image
8. The Ills of Society
9. The Uses of Nature and Art
10. Fortune and the Globe

Appendixes
     Stage History by Gary Jay Williams
     Text
     Date and Sources

Notes
Index

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