1. Introduction: Performing Trauma: The Scare of Academic Cool -- 2. Getting Stoned: Psychoanalysis and the Epistemology of Tragedy in Shakespeare -- 3. Othello, An Index and Obscure Prologue to the History of Foul Generic Thoughts -- 4. "Misshapen Chaos of Well-Seeming Forms": Specters of Jointure in Romeo and Juliet -- 5. Patriarchal Panopticism, or the Enigma of a Woman's Smile: Getting Out in Theory -- 6. The Play of Letters: Writing and Possession in Chucky's Hunch --7. Differa(n)ce: Screening the Camera's Eye in Afro-American Drama -- 8. In Exile at Home: Tornado Breath and Unrighteous Fantasy in Robbie Mccauley's Indian Blood -- 9. Camera Obscura Ideologica: From Vermeer to Video in All's Well That Ends Well -- 10. The Contrast Hurts: Censoring the Ladies Liberty in Performance -- 11. Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux