Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Ideology and Transcendence -- 2. Drama and Ideology -- 3. Ambition, the Murderous Appetite -- 4. The Cracked Mirror of History -- 5. Henry V as Ideological Vehicle -- 6. Stoicism, a Middle Way -- 7. Some Light on the “Dark” Comedies -- 8. King Lear, “Ideology” as Structure -- 9. Coriolanus, The Limits of Neutrality -- 10. Antony and Cleopatra and Vanishing Ideology -- 11. The Tempest, “With Justice and Freedom for All” -- Conclusion