PART I: WONDER IN SHAKESPEARE Wonder, Amazement, and Surprise: Beginning a Stunning Story Resurrections of the Living and the Dead: Natural and Spiritual Bodies and Souls 'Die to live': Various Forms of Empathetic Wonder The Metaphorical Use of the Prodigious Birth Tradition More of a Prodigy than a Prophecy Wonder, Awe, and Admiration: Shakespeare's Cabinets of Curiosity Transalpine Wonders: Shakespeare's Marvelous Aesthetics PART II: SIX RESPONSES TO WONDER IN SHAKESPEARE Embodying Wonder; M.Tarnoff The Aesthetic Resurrection of the 'death-mark'd' lovers in Romeo and Juliet; J.Segal The 'Spectacle of Conversion,' Wonder, and Film in The Merchant of Venice; M.G.Aune God Save the King: Richard IIin Wonder-land; R.Steinberger A World of (No) Wonder, or No Wonder-Wounded Heros Here: Toward a Theory on the Vanishing Mediation of 'No Wonder' in Shakespeare's Theater; K.Keating & B.Reynolds Passing for Truth: Wonder Tales and Their Audiences in Othello; J.B.Fisher