Part I: 1. Editing Shakespeare's plays in the twentieth century John Jowett; 2. Crisis in editing? Edward Pechter; 3. On being a general editor Stanley Wells; 4. Altering the letter of Twelfth Night: 'Some are born great' and the missing signature Patricia Parker; 5. 'A thousand Shylocks': Orson Welles and The Merchant of Venice Tom Rooney; 6. The date and authorship of hand D's contribution to Sir Thomas More: evidence from 'Literature Online' MacDonald P. Jackson; 7. Ferdinand's wife and Prospero's wise Ron Tumelson; 8. Editing Stefano's book Andrew Gurr; 9. Manuscript, print, and the authentic Shakespeare: the Ireland forgeries again Tom Lockwood; 10. The author, the editor and the translator: William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers and Sandor Petofi or the nature of a Romantic edition Julia Paraizs; 11. Women edit Shakespeare Jeanne Addison Roberts; 12. The Shakespeare edition in industrial capitalism Cary DiPietro; 13. Print and electronic editions inspired by the New Variorum Hamlet Project Bernice Kliman; 14. The evolution of online editing: where will it end? Christie Carson; 15. The director as Shakespeare editor Alan C. Dessen; 16. The editor as translator Balz Engler; 17. Performance editions, editing and editors Elizabeth Schafer; 18. Editing collaborative drama Suzanne Gossett; 19. Will in the Universe: Shakespeare's sonnets, Plato's Symposium, alchemy and Renaissance Neoplatonism Ronald Gray; 20. Giants and enemies of God: the relationship between Caliban and Prospero from the perspective of insular literary tradition Lynn Forest-Hill; 21. Shakespeare's ages Ruth Morse; 22. Who wrote William Basse's 'Elegy on Shakespeare'?: rediscovering a poem lost from the Donne canon Brandon S. Centerwall; 23. 'Sometime a paradox': Shakespeare, Diderot, and the problem of character Jonathan Holmes; 24. Shakespeare performances in England, 2005 Michael Dobson; 25. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2004 James Shaw; Part II. The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Michael Taylor; 2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Emma Smith; 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen.