List of illustrations List of contributors Preface William shakespeare:a kpartial chronology A conjectural chronology of shakespeare's works 1 Shakespeare's life ERNST HONIGMANN 2 The reproduction of shakespeare's texts BARBARA A.MOWAT 3 What did shakespeare read? LEONARD BARKAN 4 Shakespeare and the craft of language MARGRETA DE GRAZIA 5 Shakespeare's poems JOHN KERRIGAN 6 The genres of shakespeare's plays SUSAN SNYDER 7 Playhouses,players ,and court JOHN H.ASTINGTON 8 The london scene:city and court ANNE BARTON 9 Gender and sexuality in shakespeare VALERIE TRAUB 10 Outsiders in shakespeare's england ANIA LOOMBA 11 Shakespeare and english history DAVID SCOTT KASTAN 12 Shaespeare in the theatre,I660-I900 KIUS OITTER 13 Shakespeare in the twentieth-century theatre LOIS POTTER 14 Shakepeare and the cinema RUSSELL JACKSON 15 Shakespeare on the page and the stage MICHAEL DOBSON 16 Shakespeare Wordwide DENNIS KENNEDY 17 Shakespeare criticism,I600-I900 HUGH GRADY 18 shakespeare criticism in the twentieth century R.S.WHITE 19 Shakespeare reference books DIETER MEHL Index