Preface
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: SOURCES AND ANALOGUES
A Midsummer Night's Dream: from The Discoverie of Witchcraft; R. Scott
From Metamorphoses Book IV; Ovid
Richard II: from A Myrroure for Magistrates
Macbeth: from Chronicles; R. Holinshed
Antony and Cleopatra: from Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Hamlet: from The Spanish Tragedy; T. Kyd
Of Revenge; F. Bacon
Twelfth Night: from Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession; B. Riche
Measure for Measure: from Hecatommithi; G.B. Giraldi Cinthio
King Lear: from The Faerie Queene; E. Spenser
From Arcadia; P. Sidney
The Tempest: from 'The Strachey Letter'
From Metamorphoses; Ovid
PART TWO: CRITICAL READINGS
The Imperial Votaress; L. Montrose
The Staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream; J. L. Halio
The Elizabethan Drama; R. Weimann
The Political Background of Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV; J. D. Wilson
Richard II; J. E. Howard and P. Rackin
How Many Children had Lady Macbeth?; L. C. Knights
Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals; A. Sinfield
Macbeth on Film: Politics; E. Pearlman
Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra; H. Neville Davies
Squeaking Cleopatras: Gender and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra; J. Dusinberre
Spatial Politics; A. Loomba
What is an Editor?; S. Orgel
Hamlet the Mona Lisa of Literature; J. Rose
Telmah; T. Hawkes
Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night; C. L. Barber
The Two Antonios and Same-Sex Love in Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice; J. Pequigney
Measure for Measure; F. R. Leavis
London; L. Marcus
From Hamlet to Lear; A. Kettle
The Absent Mother in King Lear; C. Kahn
Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear; A. Leggatt
'What Cares These Roarers for the Name of King?': Language and Utopia in The Tempest; D. Norbrook
African and Caribbean Appropriations of The Tempest; R. Nixon
PART THREE: CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS
The Present Tense; G. Taylor
The National Poet; J. Bate
New Ways to Play Old Texts: Discourses of the Past; S. Bennett
Index.