Table of Contents:
  • The life of Shakespeare / S. Schoenbaum
  • The playhouses and the stage / Richard Hosley
  • The actors and staging / Daniel Seltzer
  • Shakespeare's reading / G.K. Hunter
  • Shakespeare and the English language / Randolph Quirk
  • Shakespeare's use of rhetoric / Brian Vickers
  • Shakespeare's poetry / Inga-Stina Ewbank
  • Shakespeare's narrative poems / J.W. Lever
  • Shakespeare the Elizabethan dramatist / David Bevington
  • Shakespeare the Jacobean dramatist / M.C. Bradbrook
  • Shakespeare and music / F.W. Sternfeld
  • The historical and social background / Joel Hurstfield
  • Shakespeare and the thought of his age / W.R. Elton
  • Shakespeare's plays on the English stage / A.C. Sprague
  • Shakespeare and the drama of his time / Peter Ure
  • Shakespeare's text: approaches and problems / G. Blakemore Evans
  • Shakespeare criticism: Dryden to Bradley / M.A. Shaaber
  • Shakespeare criticism since Bradley / Stanley Wells.