Shakespeare / J.G. Herder -- From Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- From The spirit of Christianity and its fate / G.W.F. Hegel -- Dramatic poetry, from Aesthetics : lectures on fine art / G.W.F. Hegel -- The substance of Shakespearean tragedy, from Shakespearean tragedy / A.C. Bradley -- From The origin of German tragic drama / Walter Benjamin -- Othello, from An essay on the tragic / Peter Szondi -- From Economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844 / Karl Marx -- From The birth of tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Shakespeare and modern drama / Georg Lukács -- The source of the tragic, from Hamlet or Hecuba / Carl Schmitt -- Othello and the sake of the other, from Disowning knowledge / Stanley Cavell -- Aphorism, countertime / Jacques Derrida -- Historical truth and poetic truth, from The time is out of joint / Agnes Heller