Table of Contents:
  • 1. Reading the intercultural: cultures of reading
  • 2. Intercultural signs: textual anthropology
  • 3. Desire, laughter, and the social unconscious
  • 4. Historicizing the unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean farce
  • 5. Coriolanus and the historical text
  • 6. Macbath in Kunju opera
  • Epilogue.