Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Is Shakespeare a Moral Philosopher? -- Part I: The Agency of Agents -- 1 Moral Agency and Its Problems in Julius Caesar: Political Power, Choice, and History -- 2 A Shakespearean Phenomenology of Moral Conviction -- 3 Wordplay and the Ethics of Self-Deception in Shakespeare's Tragedies -- 4 Excuses, Bepissing, and Non-being: Shakespearean Puzzles about Agency -- Part II: Social Norms -- 5 Conduct (Un)becoming or, Playing the Warrior in Macbeth -- 6 To "Tempt the Rheumy and Unpurged Air": Contagion and Agency in Julius Caesar -- 7 Ethical Questions and Questionable Morals in Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice -- 8 "The oldest hath borne most": the Burdens of Aging and the Morality of Uselessness in King Lear -- Part III: Moral Characters -- 9 Quoting the Enemy: Character, Self-Interpretation, and the Question of Perspective in Shakespeare -- 10 The Fool, the Blind, and the Jew -- 11 "Unlucky Deeds" and the Shame of Othello -- 12 Agency and Repentance in The Winter's Tale -- 13 What's Virtue Ethics Got to Do With It? Shakespearean Character as Moral Character -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.