Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Culture and Dissent in Shakespeare’s England and Cold War Europe

Chapter 3 ‘The Heart of My Mystery”: The Hidden Language of Dissent in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Grigori Kozintsev’s Film Gamlet

Chapter 4 “A Dog’s Obeyed in Office”: Subverting Authority in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Grigori Kozintsev’s Korol’ Lir

Chapter 5 “Faith, Here’s an Equivocator”: Language, Resistance, and the Limits of Authority in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Tom Stoppard’s Cahoots Macbeth

Chapter 7 Epilogue