Introduction / Peter Alexander
The mythical sorrows of Shakespeare / C.J. Sisson (1934)
Shakespeare and the players / Richard David (1961)
Shakespeare's audience / H.S. Bennett (1944)
Henry V to Hamlet / Harley Granville-Barker (1925)
The treatment of Shakespeare's text by his earlier editors, 1709-1768 / Ronald B. McKerrow (1933)
Edward Capell and his edition of Shakespeare / Alice Wlaker (1960)
The tyranny of Shakespeare / T.J.B Spencer (1959)
Shakespeare's iterative imagery / Caroline F.E. Spurgeon (1931)
Hamlet: the price or the poem? / C.S. Lewis (1942)
Coriolanus / A.C.Bradley (1912).