Contents by Genre
Contents by Date of Publication
List of Illustrations
List of Recordings digital-only
Preface
Volume Editors’ Acknowledgments
General Textual Editors’ Acknowledgments
General Introduction by Stephen Greenblatt
General Textual Introduction by Gordon McMullan and Suzanne Gossett
The Theater of Shakespeare’s Time by Holger Schott Syme
Comedies
Shakespearean Comedy by Katharine Eisaman Maus
The Taming of the Shrew
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Nights Dream: Quarto
A Midsummer Nights Dream: Folio digital-only
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Measure for Measure
Histories
Shakespearean History by Jean E. Howard
Richard the Third
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third: Quarto
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third: Folio digital-only
Richard the Second
The Life and Death of King Richard the Second: Folio
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second: Quarto digital-only
The First Part of Henry the Fourth
Henry the Fifth
The Life of Henry the Fifth: Folio
The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth, With his battle fought at Agincourt in France, Together with Ensign Pistol: Quarto digital-only
Tragedies
Shakespearean Tragedy by Stephen Greenblatt
Romeo and Juliet
The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: SecondQuarto
The Most Excellent Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: First Quarto digital-only
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Second Quarto with additions from the Folio
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: First Quarto digital-only
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:Second Quarto digital-only
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Folio digital-only
Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice: Folio
The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice: Quarto digital-only
King Lear
The Tragedy of King Lear: Folio with additions from the Quarto
From The History of King Lear, Scene 8
From The Tragedy of King Lear 3.1
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Romances
Shakespearean Romance by Walter Cohen
The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
The Sonnets
Appendices
Maps
Early Modern Map Culture by Jean E. Howard
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, and Western France: Places Important to Shakespeare’s Plays
London: Places Important to Shakespeare’s Plays and London Play-Going
The Mediterranean World: Places Important to Shakespeare’s Plays
The Chamberlain’s Men and King’s Men on Tour
Map of the “Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland,” from John Speed’s 1612 edition of The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain digital-only
Printed Map of London, from Braun and Hogenberg’s atlas of European cities (1574) digital-only
Map of the Holy Land, from Bishops’ Bible (1558)
Documents
Edited by Misha Teramura
Shakespeare and His Works
Robert Greene on Shakespeare (1592)
Thomas Nashe on 1 Henry VI (1592) digital-only
Henry Chettle on Greene and Shakespeare (1592) digital-only
Gesta Grayorum on The Comedy of Errors (December 28, 1594) digital-only
Jacques Petit on Titus Andronicus (January 1, 1596) digital-only
Francis Meres on Shakespeare (1598)
List of Actors for Ben Jonson’s Every Man In His Humor (1598) digital-only
Parnassus Plays on Shakespeare (1598—1601) digital-only
Epilogue to the Queen, Possibly by Shakespeare (1599) digital-only
John Weever on Shakespeare (1599) digital-only
Thomas Platter on Julius Caesar (September 21, 1599) digital-only
Gabriel Harvey on Hamlet, Venus and Adonis, and The Rape of Lucrece (1598—1603) digital-only
Augustine Phillips, Francis Bacon, et al. on Richard II (1601) digital-only
John Manningham on Twelfth Night and Richard III (1602) digital-only
Letters Patent Formalizing the Adoption of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men as the King’s Men (May 19, 1603) digital-only
Master of the Wardrobe’s Account (March 1604) digital-only
Henry Jackson on Othello (September 1610) digital-only
John Davies of Hereford on Shakespeare (1610) digital-only
Simon Forman on Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale (1611) digital-only
Shakespeare’s Deposition in the Belott-Mountjoy Suit (May 11,1612) digital-only
Shakespeare Paid for Designing an Impresa (March 1613) digital-only
Chambers Account of Performances by the King’s Men (May 1613) digital-only
Sir Henry Wotton on All Is True (Henry VIII) and the Burning of the Globe (1613) digital-only
Ballad on the Burning of the Globe (1613) digital-only
Ben Jonson on The Tempest (and Titus Andronicus) (1614) digital-only
Francis Beaumont (?) on Shakespeare (1615) digital-only
Shakespeare’s Will (March 25, 1616) digital-only
William Basse’s Elegy for Shakespeare (1616-23) digital-only
Nicholas Richardson on Romeo and Juliet (1620) digital-only
Front Matter from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s Plays (1623)
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare’s Portrait digital-only
The Title Page
John Heminges and Henry Condell’s Epistle to William and Philip Herbert digital-only
Heminges and Condell’s Epistle to the Readers
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare
Hugh Holland on Shakespeare digital-only
The “Catalogue” of Plays digital-only
Leonard Digges on Shakespeare digital-only
James Mabbe (?) on Shakespeare digital-only
The List of Actors digital-only
The First Page of The Tempest digital-only
Leonard Digges on Shakespeare (1623—35) digital-only
Richard James on Falstaff (ca. 1625) digital-only
Milton on Shakespeare (1630) digital-only
Thomas Heywood on Shakespeare (1635) digital-only
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare (1623—37) digital-only
Margaret Cavendish on Shakespeare (1664) digital-only
John Aubrey on Shakespeare (1681) digital-only
The Theater Scene
Edmund Tilney’s Commission as Master of the Revels (December 24, 1581) digital-only
The “Plot” for The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins (1590—98) digital-only
The “Part” for Orlando in Orlando Furioso (ca. 1592) digital-only
A Letter from Edward Alleyn to His Wife (August 1, 1593?) digital-only
Petition to the Privy Council about the Blackfriars Playhouse (November 1596) digital-only
The Isle of Dogs Affair (1597) digital-only
Financial Records from Henslowe’s Diary (1598—99) digital-only
Inventory of the Lord Admiral’s Men’s Properties and Costumes (1598—99) digital-only
Giles Allen on the Construction of the Globe (ca. December 28, 1598) digital-only
Contract for the Building of the Fortune Theater (1600) digital-only
Chamber Accounts Relating to the King’s Men (1603—4) digital-only
John Chamberlain on Gowrie (December 1604) digital-only
Elegy on Richard Burbage (1619?) digital-only
Timeline
Glossary
Short Bibliography
Full Bibliography digital only
Illustration Acknowledgments
Index of Poems
Endpaper Genealogies
A Shakespearean Genealogy
The Kings and Queens of England, 1377—1625
The House of Lancaster
The House of York
The Houses of Tudor and Stuart
Comparative Scenes digital only
Othello 4.3 (Quarto and Folio)
Richard III 4.2 (Quarto and Folio)
Henry V opening (Folio and Quarto)
Romeo and Juliet 2.1 (Second Quarto and First Folio)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5.1 (Quarto and Folio)
Hamlet 3.1 (Second Quarto and First Folio)
Sonnet 138 (with Passionate Pilgrim 1)
Sonnet 144 (with Passionate Pilgrim 2)