Contents

• Introduction
• pt. 1. Political theory and the expropriation of the scene
• From theater to Theory
• Plato : Mimesis
• Hobbes; or, Politics without a scene
• The image of the Leviathan : figural unity and the limits of representation
• pt. 2. Toward a politics of the scene
• Toward a politics of the scene
• Memory, mimesis, tragedy : the scene before philosophy
• Speaking as one witness to another : Hamlet and the "cunning of the scene"
• A scene of speaking : convocation and the suspension of tragedy in Romeo and Juliet
• Epilogue : The world stage