Shakespeare continues to articulate the central problems of our intellectual inheritance. The plays of a Renaissance playwright still seem to be fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity.<BR>Key philosophical questions concerning value, meaning and justice continue to resonate in Shakespeare''s work. In the course of rethinking these issues, <EM>Philosophical Shakespeares</EM> actively encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and ranges from problem-centred readings of particular plays to more general elaborations of the significance of Shakespeare in relation to individual thinkers or philosophical traditions.