Introduction : foregrounding / Harold Bloom
Masterpieces / Frank O'Connor
The invention of Richard of Gloucester in 3 Henry VI and Richard III / E. Pearlman
Shakespeare : errors and eros / Erich Segal
Romantic comedy and farce : The taming of the shrew / Harold Bloom
Love's labour's lost : the grace of society / Thomas M. Greene
The meaning of Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet / Harold C. Goddard
A midsummer's night's dream / G.K. Chesteron
The Bolingbroke plays / Northrop Frye
The rejection of Falstaff / A.C. Bradley
The merchant of Venice : merging with a perfect world / Joseph Westlund
Much ado about nothing : the unsociable comedy / Barbara Everett
Shakespeare's characters : Henry V and Coriolanus / William Hazlitt
"Alexander the pig" : Shakespeare on history and poetry / David Quint
Julius Caesar / Lawrence Danson
As you like it and the containment of comical satire / James P. Bednarz
Twelfth night and the morality of indulgence / John Hollander
Superposed plays : Hamlet / Richard A. Lanham
Dilation and inflation : Shakespearean increase in All's well that ends well, Troilus and Cressida / Patricia Parker
Measure for measure : the flesh made word / Ronald R. Macdonald
Dramatic intentions in Othello / Graham Bradshaw
Nature's piece 'gainst fancy : poetry and the structure of belief in Antony and Cleopatra / Janet Adelman
the poetics of incomprehensibility : The winter's tale / Stephen Orgel
Two concepts of allegory in The tempest / A.D. Nuttall.
