Notes on Contributors - Preface - PART 1: SHAKESPEARE AND HIS PREDECESSORS - Magic and the Recluse in Arden: Shakespeare's Precursors in the Forest; J.Frankis - Voices from the Past: A Note on Termagent and Herod; D.Whaley - Classical and Contemporary Sources of the 'Gloomy Woods' of Titus Andronicus: Ovid, Seneca, Spenser; M.Pincombe - Shakespeare's Henry IV and 'the old song of Percy and Douglas'; C.Lamont - 'Suppose you see': The Chorus in Henry V and The Mirror for Magistrates; B.Vickers - PART 2: SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES - Credulous to False Prints: Shakespeare, Chettle, Harvey, Wolfe; J.Jowett - The Case for the Earlier Canon; R.King - Freud and Shakespeare: Hamlet; A.D. Nuttall - Othello, The Infamous Ripley and Shaksper; E.Pechter - Timon and Tragedy; L.Lerner - Shakespeare the Man; P.Honan - The Rapture of the Sea; P.Edwards - PART 3: SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE - 'Comparisons and Wounding Flouts': Love's Labours Lost and the Tradition of Personal Satire; T.Cain - TheIntegration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus; S.Wells - Troilus and Cressida as Brechtian Theatre; R.S.White - On Finishing a Commentary on King Lear; R.A.Foakes - The Making of a Popular Repertory: Hollywood and the Elizabethans; G.K.Hunter - Shakespeare meets the Warner Brothers: Reinhardt and Dieterle's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); B.Babington - PART 4: SHAKESPEARE AND LATER WRITERS - Nicholas Rowe and the Glossing of Shakespeare; N.E.Osselton - Shakespearean Sensibilities: Women Writers Reading Shakespeare, 1753-1808; J.Hawley - Shakespeare in The Cenci: Tragedy and 'familiar imagery'; M.Rossington - Ruskin and Shakespeare; J.Batchelor - Shakespeare and Strindberg: Influence as Insemination; I-S.Ewbank - The Further Fortunes of Falstaff; T.W.Craik - 'Brush up your Shakespeare', or Learning to Dance with the Bard: Angela Carter's Wise Children; L.Anderson - Base Uses; K.Muir - 'After Shakespeare: The West End, Newcastle upon Tyne' A Set of Poems; D.Graham - A Select Bibliography; E.A.J.Honigmann - Index