Shakespeare on page & stage: selected essays

Introduction / Peter Holland

I. Shakespearean influences.

1. Shakespeare : man of the European Renaissance

2. Tales from Shakespeare

II. Essays on particular works.

3. The failure of The two gentlemen of Verona

4. The taming of the shrew and King Lear : a structural comparison

5. The integration of violent action in Titus Andronicus

6. The challenges of Romeo and Juliet

7. Juliet's nurse : the uses of inconsequentiality

8. The lamentable tale of Richard II

9. A midsummer night's dream revisited

10. Translations in A midsummer night's dream

11. The once and future King Lear

12. Problems of stagecraft in The tempest

13. 'My name is Will' : Shakespeare's sonnets and autobiography

14. Shakespeare without sources

15. Shakespeare and romance

III. Shakespeare in the theatre.

16. Boys should be girls : Shakespeare's female roles and the boy players

17. Staging Shakespeare's ghosts

18. Staging Shakespeare's apparitions and dream visions

19. Shakespeare in Planché's extravaganzas

20. Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's theatre criticism

21. Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt's theatre criticism

Shakespeare in Hazlitt's theatre criticism

Peter Hall's Coriolanus, 1959

IV. Shakespeare's text.

24. On being a general editor

25. Editiorial treatment of foul-paper texts : Much ado about nothing as test case

26. Money in Shakespeare's comedies

27. To read a play : the problem of editorial intervention

28. The First Folio : where should we be without it?

29. The limitations of the First Folio

Afterword / Margreta de Grazia.