James Gilligan, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, NYU, wrote Violence (1996), Preventing Violence (2001), Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others (2011), a Times Literary Supplement 'Book of the Year', and co-authored The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (2016), a New York Times best-seller. His advice has been sought by President Clinton, Tony Blair, Kofi Annan, the World Health Organization, and the World Court.
Introduction: can we learn from Shakespeare about the causes and prevention of violence?
1. Shame and guilt in personality and culture
2. The cycle of violence in history plays
3. Fathers and mothers: the perversion of love in King Lear and Coriolanus
4. Make war, not love: Anthony and Cleopatra
5. The motives and malignity: shame and masculinity in Othello and Macbeth
6. Moral nihilism and the paralysis of action: Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida
7. Apocalyptic vioence: Timon of Athens
8. Transcending morality, preventing violence: Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Merchant of Venice
9. The form and pressure of Shakespeare's time - and ours: what Shakespeare shows us about shame, guilt, love and violence
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