Bargains with fate : psychological crises and conflicts in Shakespeare and his plays / Bernard J. Paris ; with a foreword by Theodore I. Rubin and a new preface by the author.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2009], ©2009.

xxvii, 303 pages ; 23 cm

Originally published: New York : Plenum Press, c1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-289) and index.

Bargains, defenses, and cultural codes -- Hamlet -- Othello -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Shakespeare's conflicts -- "What fools these mortals be" : self-effacement in the sonnets, the comedies, Troilus and Chressida, and Antony and Cleopatra -- Shakespeare's leap of faith : from the tragedies to the romances -- The tempest : Shakespeare's ideal solution.