Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Tempering extremities: hazardous mediation in Romeo and Juliet
  • Monumental mockery: Troilus and Cressida and the perversities of medium
  • Ragozine's head: comic solutions through fraudulent mediation in Measure for Measure
  • Beyond extremity: King Lear and the limits of poetic drama
  • Confounding contraries: the unmediated world of Timon of Athens
  • Conclusion.