Tobias Döring is Chair of English Literature, LMU München, Germany, and past President of the German Shakespeare Society. His latest books are (ed. with Virginia Mason Vaughan) Critical and Cultural Transformations: Shakespeare's The Tempest - 1611 to the Present and (ed. with Mark Stein) Edward Said's Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism.

Ewan Fernie is Chair, Professor and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. His latest book, The Demonic: Literature and Experience, gives considerable attention to Shakespeare and Mann.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Something Rich and Strange (with A Note on
Mann's Shakespeare, by Tobias Döring, LMU München, Germany)
Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK)

1 The Violence of Desire: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Mann
Jonathan Dollimore (University of York, UK)

2 Laughter in the Throat of Death: Thomas Mann's
Shakespearean Sprachkrise
Richard Wilson (University of Kingston, UK)

3 Masquerades of Love: Love's Labours's Lost and the Musical
Development of Shakespeare's Comedy in Mann's Doktor
Faustus
Alexander Honold (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

4 The Magic Fountain: Shakespeare, Mann and Modern
Authorship
Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany)

5 'A dark exception among the rule-abiding': Thomas Mann
and Othello
Friedhelm Marx (Universität Bamberg, Germany)

6 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath':
Shakespearean Overtones in Mann's Der Tod in Venedig
John T. Hamilton (Harvard University, USA)

7 Shakespeare to Mann, via Wagner
Dave Paxton (University of Birmingham, UK)

8 'Yes-yes, no': Mann, Shakespeare, and the Struggle for
Affirmation
Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK)

9 Teenage Fanclub: Mann and Shakespeare in the Queer
Pantheon
Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

10 A Kind of Loving: Hans Castorp as Model Critic 207
David Fuller (University of Durham, UK)

11 Changing the Subject
Ulrike Draesner (writer and translator, Berlin, Germany)

Afterword
Elisabeth Bronfen (Universität Zürich, Switzerland)