Preface.- Acknowledgements.- PART ONE: SOURCES AND ANALOGUES.- A Midsummer Night's Dream: from The Discoverie of Witchcraft; R. Scott.- From Metamorphoses Book IV; Ovid.- Richard II: from A Myrroure for Magistrates.- Macbeth: from Chronicles; R. Holinshed.- Antony and Cleopatra: from Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.- Hamlet: from The Spanish Tragedy; T. Kyd.- Of Revenge; F. Bacon.- Twelfth Night: from Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession; B. Riche.- Measure for Measure: from Hecatommithi; G.B. Giraldi Cinthio.- King Lear: from The Faerie Queene; E. Spenser.- From Arcadia; P. Sidney.- The Tempest: from 'The Strachey Letter'.- From Metamorphoses; Ovid.- PART TWO: CRITICAL READINGS.- The Imperial Votaress; L. Montrose.- The Staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream; J. L. Halio.- The Elizabethan Drama; R. Weimann.- The Political Background of Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV; J. D. Wilson.- Richard II; J. E. Howard and P. Rackin.- How Many Children had Lady Macbeth?; L. C. Knights.- Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals; A. Sinfield.- Macbeth on Film: Politics; E. Pearlman.- Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra; H. Neville Davies.- Squeaking Cleopatras: Gender and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra; J. Dusinberre.- Spatial Politics; A. Loomba.- What is an Editor?; S. Orgel.- Hamlet the Mona Lisa of Literature; J. Rose.- Telmah; T. Hawkes.- Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night; C. L. Barber.- The Two Antonios and Same-Sex Love in Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice; J. Pequigney.-Measure for Measure; F. R. Leavis.- London; L. Marcus.- From Hamlet to Lear; A. Kettle.- The Absent Mother in King Lear; C. Kahn.- Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear; A. Leggatt.- 'What Cares These Roarers for the Name of King?': Language and Utopia in The Tempest; D. Norbrook.- African and Caribbean Appropriations of The Tempest; R. Nixon.- PART THREE: CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS.- The Present Tense; G. Taylor.- The National Poet; J. Bate.- New Ways to Play Old Texts: Discourses of the Past; S. Bennett.- Index.