Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction: Shakespearean Patterns -- 1. Titus Andronicus: From the Beginning -- 2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Structure of Early Shakespearean Romance -- 3. Pattern and Balance in Love's Labour's Lost -- 4. The Insubstantial World of Richard II: Patterns of Dissolution and Identity -- 5. The Merchant of Venice: Bond or Free? -- 6. As You Like It: A Comedy of Patterns -- 7. Macbeth: The Round of Sovereignty -- 8. Measure for Measure: Freedom and Restraint -- 9. The Unstable World of Antony and Cleopatra -- 10. The Tempest: The Perennial Problem -- To Conclude -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction: Shakespearean Patterns -- 1. Titus Andronicus: From the Beginning -- 2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Structure of Early Shakespearean Romance -- 3. Pattern and Balance in Love's Labour's Lost -- 4. The Insubstantial World of Richard II: Patterns of Dissolution and Identity -- 5. The Merchant of Venice: Bond or Free? -- 6. As You Like It: A Comedy of Patterns -- 7. Macbeth: The Round of Sovereignty -- 8. Measure for Measure: Freedom and Restraint -- 9. The Unstable World of Antony and Cleopatra -- 10. The Tempest: The Perennial Problem -- To Conclude -- Bibliography -- Index