附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-158) and index.
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.