Shakespeare's folly: philosophy, humanism, critical theory

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Towards a Philosophy of Folly -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Folly and Critical Theory -- 1.3. Shakespearean Fools -- 2. Humanism and Shakespearean Folly -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Stultitia's Metamorphosis -- 2.3. Dialectics and Utopian Enlightenment -- 2.4. Playing the Fool in Utopia -- 2.5. Playing and Mocking -- 2.6. Essaying Folly -- 2.7. Identity Critique -- 3. Opening the Silenus: The Fool's Truth -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Theology and the Silenus -- 3.3. Silenic Style -- 3.4. Casket Test -- 3.5. Self-Serving Mercy -- 3.6. Epilogue -- 4. Jesting at History -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Degeneracy -- 4.3. Deformities -- 4.4. Echoes of Folly -- 4.5. Telling the Truth through Lies -- 4.6. Cretan Historians -- 4.7. Use and Abuse of History -- 5. Love's Fools -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Inhuman Allegories -- 5.3. Temporality and Allegory -- 5.4. True, False, Other: The Logic of Folly -- 5.5. Love's `Strange Capers' -- 5.6. World Turned Upside-Down -- 5.7. Modalities of Melancholy -- 5.8. What a Fool Honesty Is -- 5.9. Losing Eden -- 6. Folly and Aesthetic Judgement -- 6.1. Pitiful Ambition in the Fool -- 6.2. Your Sovereignty of Reason -- 6.3. Here's Fine Revolution -- 6.4. Your Fat King and Your Lean Beggar -- 6.5. Terrible Eloquence -- 6.6. Reason in Madness -- 6.7. Excellent Foppery of Man -- 6.8. 0 Without a Figure -- 6.9. This Prophecy Merlin Shall Make -- 6.10. Let Us Deal Justly -- 6.11. Thy Life's a Miracle.