Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Paradox of Love's Triumph -- II. Twelfth Night: The Illusion of Love's Triumph and the Accommodation of Time -- III. Troilus and Cressida: The Finiteness of Love -- IV. All's Well that Ends Well: An Equivocal Triumph of Love -- V. Measure for Measure: The Reality of Appetite and the Image of Grace -- VI. Antony and Cleopatra: The Reality of "Nilus' Slime" and the Dream of an Eternal Marriage -- VII. The Winter's Tale: The Reality of Love's Triumph -- Backmatter