v. 1. Shakespeare's world, 1500-1660. Part I. Mapping Shakespeare's world. Introduction / by Peter Whitfield ; Space into place / Susan Bennett ; Maps and map literacy / Gavin Hollis ; Geographical myths / Mary Fuller ; Climate / Mike Hulme ; City / Ian Munro ; Country / Gabriel Egan ; Court / Thomas Betteridge ; Crossings and communications / Laura Williamson Ambrose ; Globe/Theatrum mundi / John Gillies
Part II. Theater. Introduction / by Andrew Gurr ; European theater scene / Franklin J. Hildy ; Players and the playing business / Jerzy Limon ; Playhouses / Gabriel Egan ; Audiences and playgoing / John H. Astington ; Properties / Fran Teague ; Costumes / Bridget Escolme ; Cosmetics / Farah Karim-Cooper ; Playwriting / John D. Cox ; Production processes / Tiffany Stern ; Stage directions and the stage space / Mariko Ichikawa ; Music / David Lindley ; The prehistory of Shakespearean theater / Janette Dillon ; Entertainments : baiting, dances, contests / Will West ; Court masques / Jean Macintyre
Part III. Language. Introduction / by David Crystal ; Early modern English : the language / Matti Rissanen ; Pronunciation and OP on the modern stage / Paul Meier ; Shakespeare's grammar / Teresa Fanego ; Shakespeare's forms of address / Penny Freedman ; Foreign languages and foreign-language learning / Ton Hoenselaars ; John Florio and the early modern dictionary / Michael Wyatt ; Shakespeare using early modern translations / Liz Oakley-Brown ; Dialects in the plays of Shakespeare / Paula Blank ; Rhetoric / Neil Rhodes ; Figures of speech (including puns) / Scott F. Crider ; Language : key to authorship / Ward E.Y. Elliott ; Shakespeare and the OED / Charlotte Brewer
Part IV. Science and technology. Introduction / by Pamela O. Long ; Astronomy, astrology, cosmology / Raz D. Chen-Morris ; Cartography / Valerie Traub ; Botany / Leah Knight ; Zoology / Andreas Höfele ; Textiles and clothing construction / Maria Hayward ; Agriculture, food distribution, cooking / Julian Yates ; Metallurgy / Bert Hall ; Alchemy / Katherine Eggert ; Military technologies / Patricia Cahill
Part V. Printing, publishing, textuality. Introduction / by John Jowett ; The London book trade / Mark Bland ; Printing press technology / Helen Smith ; Paper / R. Carter Hailey ; Reading practices / Jean-Christophe Mayer ; Manuscript culture / Alan Stewart ; The first folio / Adam Hooks
Part VI. Visual arts. Introduction / by Alexander Marr ; Ornament / Russ McDonald ; Single-sheet prints / Malcolm Jones ; Emblems / Charles Moseley ; Architecture / Lena Cowen Orlin ; Gardens / Paula Henderson ; Sculpture / Nigel Llewellyn ; Painting on wooden panel / Karen Hearn ; Decorative arts / Anthony Wells-Cole ; Tapestries / Sheila ffolliott ; Painted cloths / Nicholas Mander ; Triumphal entries / Elizabeth Goldring and Jayne Elisabeth Archer ; Collecting / Marjorie Swann
Part VII. Popular culture. Introduction / by Mary Ellen Lamb ; Oral tradition / Steven Newman ; Cheap print / Douglas Bruster ; Popular fiction / Steve Mentz ; Traditional entertainments and celebrations / François Laroque ; Flytings, polemics, charivaris / Martin Ingram ; News culture / Jason Peacey ; Women's culture / Alison Findlay.
Part VIII. High culture. Introduction / by R. Malcolm Smuts ; Poetry / Andrew Hadfield ; Classical genres : epic, tragedy, comedy, satire / Heather James ; Educational practices : rhetoric / Christy Desmet ; Educational practices : religion and gender / Stephanie Sleeper ; Philosophy / Todd Butler ; History and historiography / Atsuhiko Hirota ; Music / Jessie Ann Owens ; Military and chivalric culture / Paul E.J. Hammer ; The royal court / Curtis Perry
Part IX. England, 1560-1650. Introduction / by James A. Sharpe ; Sorts, classes, hierarchies / David Schalkwyk ; Trade and commerce : mercantilism / Michael Tratner ; Shakespeare's money / David J. Baker ; Birth, marriage, and death / Mary I. Sokol and B.J. Sokol ; Gender relations and the position of women / Adelaide Meira Serras ; The law in Shakespeare's theater / Giuseppina Restivo ; Education / Eleanor Hubbard ; Race and nation / Margo Hendricks ; England's place in the international order / Manfred Draudt ; Shakespeare's national types / David Bevington
Part X. Religion. Introduction / by Lori Anne Ferrell ; Theater and religion / Kristin Poole ; Selfhood and sanctification / Kathleen Lynch ; The liturgical year / Peter Carlson ; Judaism and Jews / Brett D. Hirsch ; Witchcraft / Sarah Kennedy ; Atheism / Alec Ryrie ; Islam / Daniel Vitkus ; Rome, Catholicism, and Italy / Stefania Tutino ; Forms of religious expression / Molly Murray ; Heresies / Genelle Gertz
Part XI. Medicine. Introduction / by Mary Fissell ; Healing and healers / Richelle Munkhoff ; How the body worked / Barbara Traister ; The shock of the new / B.J. Sokol ; Explaining racial and sexual differences / Mary Floyd-Wilson ; Lessons from the body : moralizing disability / Michael Schoenfeldt ; Lessons from the body : dissection and anatomy / Richard Sugg ; Medical practices / Todd H.J. Pettigrew ; Mental illness / Neil Vickers ; Violence and possession / Philip Almond
Part XII. The historical William Shakespeare. Introduction / by Peter Holland ; Life documents / Robert Bearman ; Education and reading in Shakespeare's work / Lynn Enterline ; Authorship controversy / David Kathman ; Likenesses : prints and paintings / Erin C. Blake ; Likenesses : memorial bust / Macdonald P. Jackson
Part XIII. Shakespeare's fellows. Introduction / by Stanley Wells ; Robert Greene / Sophie Chiari ; Christopher Marlowe / Arata Ide ; Thomas Nashe / John Tobin ; Thomas Kyd / Clara Calvo ; Richard Tarlton / Nora Johnson ; George Peele / Charles Whitworth ; John Lyly / Francis Guinle ; Richard Burbage / David Kathman ; John Heminges and Henry Condell / David Kathman ; Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe / Susan P. Cerasano ; Nathan Field / Antonia Southern ; William Kemp / Nora Johnson ; Robert Johnson / Catherine A. Henze ; Robert Armin / Catherine A. Henze ; Ben Jonson / Sean McEvoy ; John Fletcher / Sarah Lewis ; Thomas Middleton / Michelle O'Callaghan ; John Webster / Robert Henke
Part XIV. Shakespeare's early reception (to 1660). Introduction / by Charles Whitney ; Manuscripts containing texts by Shakespeare / Grace Ioppolo ; Allusions / Sayre Greenfield ; Shakespeare and company in court records / Richard Dutton ; Experiences of performance : firsthand accounts of theater / Andrew Fleck ; Scandals : Essex, Cobham, and others / András Kiséry ; Shakespeare and Renaissance aesthetics / Hugh Grady ; Shakespeare's early reception in Europe / Jozef de Vos.
v. 2. The world's Shakespeare, 1660-present. Part XV. International encounters. Introduction / by Ton Hoenselaars ; Translation, adaptation, and "tradaptation" / Mark Fortier ; Translation : the European fortunes of sonnet 66 / Manfred Pfister ; French romanticism : Hamlet at the Théâtre De l'Odéon, Paris, in 1827 / Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine ; Shakespeare and national literatures / Joep Leerssen ; Local, global, and "glocal" / Martin Orkin ; Shakespeare societies / Nick Walton ; Globe theater replicas / Yu Jin Ko ; Boomerang Shakespeare : foreign Shakespeare in Britain / Alexa Huang ; Shakespeare in Iberian and Latin American Spanishes / Alfredo Michel Modenessi ; Tercentenary Shakespeare : Britain and the United States, 1916 / Monika Smialkowska ; Shakespeare in Eastern Europe / Veronika Schandl
Part XVI. Making the scene. Introduction / by Bruce R. Smith ; Romeo and Juliet 2.1 : "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" / Mariacristina Cavecchi ; A midsummer night's dream 3.2 : "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" / Patricia Fagundes ; Henry V 3.1 : "Once more unto the breach" / Mariangela Tempera ; Hamlet 3.1 : "To be or not to be" / Ann Thompson ; Macbeth 1.3 : "King hereafter!" / Stephen Orgel ; Othello 1.3 : "Far more fair than black" / Tom Cheesman ; Antony and Cleopatra : interview with Harriet Walter / Paul Edmondson ; King Lear 5.3 : "Never, never, never, never, never" / Kobayashi Kaori ; Richard III 5.4 : "My kingdom for a horse!" / Keith Gregor ; The tempest 4.1 / Krystyna Kujawińska
Part XVII. Shakespeare as cultural icon. Introduction / by Jyotsna Singh ; Shakespeare festivals and jubilees / Nandini Das ; Shakespeare behind bars / Niels Herold ; The Folger Shakespeare Library / Michael D. Bristol ; Global diasporas as reflected in the work of Keng Sen Ong / Alexa Huang ; Bollywood / Nandi Bhatia ; Shakespeare and First Nations in Canada / Ric Knowles ; Shakespeare in British pedagogy / Sarah Olive ; Coriolanus in South Africa / David Johnson ; The Stratford Shakespeare trade / Barbara Hodgdon and Jenny Whybrow ; Middle Eastern Shakespeare / Avraham Oz ; Shakespeare and German romanticism / Bettina Boecker
Part XVIII. Shakespeare and popular culture. Introduction / by Douglas Lanier ; Parody, burlesque, satire / Lynne Bradley ; Shakespeare spin-offs / Amy Scott-Douglass ; Quoting and misquoting Shakespeare / Kate Rumbold ; Popular adaptations for theater / Jill Levenson ; The commodified bard : Shakespeare, advertising, and market culture / Jean I. Marsden ; Shakespeare and popular music / Daniel Fischlin ; Iconic characters : overview / Deanne Williams ; Iconic characters : Ophelia / Sujata Iyengar ; Iconic characters : Shylock / Sabine Schülting ; Iconic characters : Romeo and Juliet / Carlos Antônio Leite Brandāo ; Iconic characters : Falstaff / Michael Dobson ; Iconic characters : Richard III / Laura Silva ; Iconic characters : Othello / Irina Prikhodko ; Iconic characters : Lear / Aimara da Cunha Resende ; Iconic characters : Hamlet as iconic image in Russian culture / Nickolay Zakharov
Part XIX. Translation. Introduction / by Dirk Delabastita ; Canonization and obsolescence : classic translations versus retranslations / Keith Gregor ; Signing Shakespeare (ASL) / Peter Novak ; Shakespeare into Creole / Roshni Mooneeram ; Translating Shakespeare for the screen / Nicolas Sanchez ; Translating Shakespeare for performance / Anna Cetera ; Idioms, proverbs, quotations : Shakespeare's influence on language evolution / Sarah Grandage ; Shakespeare's entry into the Arabic world / Sameh F. Hanna ; The merchant of Venice in the Jewish diaspora : German, Hebrew, Yiddish / Dror Abend-David ; Shakespeare translations in Asia / Reiko Oya ; The cultural politics of Spanish translations / Belén Bistué ; Shakespeare without sweat : updating and simplifying Shakespeare's English / Dirk Delabastita
Part XX. Changing technologies of stage performance. Introduction / by Shoichiro Kawai ; Physical structures / Ronnie Mulryne ; Acting techniques / Sharon Marie Carnicke ; Costume / Janet Birkett, Kate Dorney, and Catherine Haill ; Scenery / Christopher Baugh ; Lighting / Neil Fraser ; Sound design / Ross Brown ; Visual projections / Thomas Cartelli ; Original practices / Don Weingust.
Part XXI. Audiences. Introduction / by Lori Humphrey Newcomb ; English-speaking audiences: sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Richard Preiss ; English-speaking audiences: restoration and eighteenth century / Emily Hodgson Anderson ; English-speaking audiences : nineteenth century / Robert Sawyer ; English-speaking audiences : twentieth century / Martin Buzacott ; Shakespeare for soldiers and seniors / Amy Scott-Douglass ; Shakespearean players in early modern Europe / Pavel Drábek and M.A. Katritzky ; Diversely abled audiences / Maura Michelle Tarnoff ; Audiences at the old Globe and the new / Penelope Woods
Part XXII. Production history. Introduction / by Joseph Roach ; 1 Henry IV : playhouse beginnings / Herbert Weil and Judith Weil ; King Lear from the Restoration to the nineteenth century / Jay L. Halio ; Hamlet and the actors : Restoration to Victorian players / Philip Edwards ; Henry V : Victorian stagings / Andrew Gurr ; Romeo and Juliet : Victorian actresses / James N. Loehlin ; The tempest : the design of Prospero's island, 1930s-1980s / Christine Dymkowski ; Titus Andronicus : stage and screen after 1955 / Alan Hughes and Sue Hall-Smith ; The taming of the shrew : Katherina onstage from the 1970s to the 1990s / Elizabeth Schafer ; Julius Caesar : stage interpretations from the 1970s to the 1990s / Marvin Spevack and Marga Munkelt ; Much ado about nothing : performance history onstage and in film, 1980s-1990s / F.H. Mares and Angela Stock ; Macbeth, three influential late twentieth-century productions : Kurosawa, Polanski, Ninagawa / A.R. Braunmuller ; Measure for measure : stage, film, and television productions at the turn of the twenty-first century / Brian Gibbons and Angela Stock
Part XXIII. Printing and reception history. Introduction / by Andrew Murphy ; The practicalities of editing : Measure for measure / A.R. Braunmuller ; Popular versus scholarly texts / Alan Young ; The texts of Shakespeare and textual theory / David Scott Kastan ; The digital text and beyond / John Lavagnino ; Case study 1: King Lear / René Weis ; Case Study 2: The tempest / Barbara Mowat
Part XXIV. Shakespeare and the book. Introduction / by Georgianna Ziegler ; Shakespeare's books / Neil Rhodes ; Fortunes of the first folio / Anthony James West ; Collecting and reading Shakespeare's quartos / Jeffrey Todd Knight ; Shakespeare anthologies / Kate Rumbold ; Shakespeare in quotation marks / Zoltán Márkus ; Shakespeare in quotations in English / Elizabeth M. Knowles ; Shakespeare in quotations in Spanish / Jésus Tronch ; Shakespeare in quotations in French / Dominique Goy-Blanquet ; Shakespeare in quotations in German / Felix Sprang ; Shakespeare in quotations in Japanese / Emi Hamana ; The HyperHamlet Project / Balz Engler ; Shakespeare into fiction / Diana Henderson ; Shakespeare as protagonist / Paul Franssen ; Shakespeare and children's literature / Erica Hateley ; Self-help Shakespeare / Kristine Johanson
Part XXV. Shakespeare and the critics. Introduction / by Lars Engle ; Rhetoric, form, aesthetics / Mark David Rasmussen ; Philosophy, ethics, morality / John J. Joughin ; The linguistic turn and the cultural turn / Rob Carson ; Character and psychoanalytic criticism / Julia Reinhard Lupton ; Biography and autobiography / Dympna Callaghan ; Materialist and political criticism / Peter Holbrook ; Identity and subjectivity / Evelyn Gajowski ; Performance, perception, reception / James Kearney ; Cognition and affect / Kristine Steenbergh.
Part XXVI. Shakespeare and the performing arts. Introduction / by Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira ; Opera / William Germano ; Ballet / Nancy Isenberg ; Musical comedy / Tetsuo Kishi ; Symphonic music / J.P.E. Harper-Scott ; Pantomime / John O'Brien ; Puppetry / Scott Cutler Shershow ; Jazz / Michael Ingham
Part XXVII. Shakespeare and the visual arts. Introduction / by Stuart Sillars ; Book illustrations / Erin C. Blake ; Graphic satire / Clare Haynes ; Photography / Stuart Sillars ; Periodical illustrations / Claudia Corti ; Commercial images / Catherine Alexander ; Comic books and Manga / Sven-Arve Myklebost
Part XXVIII. Shakespeare and media history. Introduction / by Katherine Rowe ; Shakespeare on air I : early British radio and radio audiences / Eve-Marie Oesterlen ; Shakespeare on air II : the golden age of US radio / Olwen Terris ; Shakespeare and audio recording / Wes Folkerth ; TV and early TV audiences in Europe and the United States / William Uricchio ; Film and film audiences / Robert Shaughnessy ; World cinema / Mark Thornton Burnett ; Plays-within-the-film / Sarah Hatchuel ; Shakespeare documentaries / Rebecca Chapman ; The sonnets onscreen / James Schiffer ; Shakespeare and animation / Laurie Osborne ; Shakespeare and online video / Luke McKernan.