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)