Introduction

3-8

Wonder, amazement, and surprise

beginning a stunning story

9-16

Resurrections of the living and the dead

natural and spiritual bodies and souls

17-40

"Die to live"

various forms of empathetic wonder

41-52

The metaphorical use of the prodigious birth tradition

53-68

More of a prodigy than a prophecy

69-83

Wonder, awe, and admiration

Shakespeare's cabinets of curiosity

85-95

Transalpine wonders

Shakespeare's marvelous aesthetics

97-108

Introduction

127-129

Embodying wonder

131-138

The aesthetic resurrection of the "death-mark"d" lovers in Romeo and Juliet

139-147

The "spectacle of conversion," wonder, and film in the Merchant of Venice

149-163

God save the king

Richard II in wonder-land

165-174

A world of (no) wonder, or no wonder-wounded hearers here

toward a theory on the vanishing mediation of "no wonder" in Shakespeare's theater

175-194

Passing for truth

wonder tales and their audiences in othello

195-213