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This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies andin continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface betweencontinental thinking and Shakespeare's plays. The authors draw from currentcontinental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) as well as from the 19thcentury continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early rootsof continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the spanof the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of thinkers as diverseas Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer,Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida.