In this book White "traces the influence of both the comedies and tragedies [of Shakespeare] on Keats's work." (Choice)

Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on quotations
Introduction: Keats's Shakespeare: Shakespearean Keats
1. The Importance of Reading Shakespeare
2. Hazlitt and Keats's attitudes to Shakespeare
3. Keats's readings of Shakespeare's comedies
4. 'Shakespearean hieroglyphics' in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest
5. Hamlet and Macbeth
6. Tragedies of Love
7. King Lear
8. Keats and Tragegy
Conclusion: Keats as a reader of Shakespeare
Notes
Bibliography
Index

R. S. White is Australian Professorial Fellow, Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia, and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. Among his other books are Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996), Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2008), Pacifism in English Poetry: Minstrels of Peace (2008) and John Keats: A Literary Life (2010) which has been reissued in paperback. He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy.