Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Shakespeare's Souls with Longing -- Chapters -- 1 Shakespeare's Understandings of Honor Morally Absolute, Politically Relative -- 2 Love, Honor, and the Dynamics of Shakespearean Drama -- 3 The Spectrum of Love Nature and Convention in As You Like It -- 4 Pagan Statesmanship and Christian Translation A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 5 Private Goods and Public Neglect in Shakespeare's Troy -- 6 Friendship and Love of Honor The Education of Henry V -- 7 Love, Sex, and Shakespeare's Intention in Romeo and Juliet -- 8 Macbeth's Strange Infirmity Shakespeare's Portrait of a Demonic Tyranny -- 9 Beyond Love and Honor Eros and Will to Power in Richard III -- 10 Taming The Tempest Prospero's Love of Wisdom and the Turn from Tyranny -- 11 A Motley to the View Staging Tragic Honor -- Epilogue -- 12 The Phoenix and Turtle and the Mysteries of Love Who Wants What, Why, and To What Effect? -- 13 Love's Book of Honor and Shame Shakespeare's Sonnets and Lyric Flourishing -- Appendices -- APPENDIX A Shakespeare's Plays: First Folio Catalogue -- APPENDIX B Shakespeare's Works: Composition Date -- APPENDIX C Shakespeare's Plays: Political Order -- APPENDIX D Shakespeare's Plays: Dramatic Setting and Date -- About the Contributors.