Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare and the element he lived in / David Scott Kastan
  • Shakespeare the man / David Bevington
  • Shakespeare's England / Norman Jones
  • Shakespeare's London / Ian W. Archer
  • Religious identities in Shakespeare's England / Peter Lake
  • Family and the household / Susan Dwyer Amussen
  • Shakespeare and political thought / Martin Dzelzainis
  • Political culture / David Harris Sacks
  • The great variety of readers and early modern reading practices / heidi Brayman Hackel
  • Reading the Bible / David Daniell
  • Reading the classics / Robert S. Miola
  • Shapes of history / D.R. Woolf
  • Reading vernacular literature / Diana E. Henderson and James Siemon
  • Professional playwriting / Scott McMillin
  • Shakespeare's 'Natiue English' / Jonathan Hope
  • Hearing Shakespeare's dramatic verse / George T. Wright
  • Shakespeare and rhetorical culture / Peter G. Platt
  • Shakespeare and genre / Jean E. Howard
  • Economics of playing / William Ingram
  • Chamberlain's-King's men / S.P. Cerasano
  • Shakespeare's Repertory / Rslyn L. Knutson
  • Shakespeare's playhouses / Andrew Gurr
  • Licensing and censorship / Richard Dutton
  • Shakespeare in print, 1593-1640 / Thomas L. Berger and Jesse M. Lander
  • Precious few: English manuscript playbooks / William B. Long
  • Craft of printing (1600) / Laurie E. Maguire
  • London book-trade in 1600 / Mark Bland
  • Liberty, license, and authority: press censorship and Shakespeare / Cyndia Susan Clegg
  • Shakespeare: the myth / Michael D. Bristol.