The Custom of the Castle

  ABBREVIATIONS
  PREFACE

 collapse sectionPART ONE  THE FRENCH MODEL
 Chapter One  Introduction
 collapse sectionChapter Two  Malory's Weeping Castle
 I
 II
 III

 collapse sectionPART TWO  THE ITALIAN TRANSITION
 Chapter Three  Boiardo's Castle Cruel
 expand sectionChapter Four  Ariosto's Fable of Power

 collapse sectionPART THREE  THE ENGLISH CONCLUSION
 expand sectionChapter Five  Spenser's Customs of Courtesy
 expand sectionChapter Six  Hamlet's Ghost Fear
 expand sectionChapter Seven  Macbeth's Future: "A Thing of Custom"
 Chapter Eight  Epilogue: The Disappearing Castle

  APPENDIX ONE  KING LEAR
  APPENDIX TWO  OTHELLO
 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionINDEX

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