Shakespeare and the "element" he lived in / David Scott Kastan -- Shakespeare the man / David Bevington -- Shakespeare's England / Norman Jones -- Shakespeare's London / Ian W. Archer -- Religious identities in Shakespeare's England / Peter Lake -- Family and the household / Susan Dwyer Amussen -- Shakespeare and political thought / Martin Dzelzainis -- Political culture / David Harris Sacks -- "The great variety of readers" and early modern reading practices / heidi Brayman Hackel -- Reading the Bible / David Daniell -- Reading the classics / Robert S. Miola -- Shapes of history / D. R. Woolf -- Reading vernacular literature / Diana E. Henderson and James Siemon -- Professional playwriting / Scott McMillin -- Shakespeare's 'Natiue English' / Jonathan Hope -- Hearing Shakespeare's dramatic verse / George T. Wright -- Shakespeare and rhetorical culture / Peter G. Platt -- Shakespeare and genre / Jean E. Howard -- Economics of playing / William Ingram -- Chamberlain's-King's men / S. P. Cerasano -- Shakespeare's Repertory / Rslyn L. Knutson -- Shakespeare's playhouses / Andrew Gurr -- Licensing and censorship / Richard Dutton -- Shakespeare in print, 1593-1640 / Thomas L. Berger and Jesse M. Lander -- "Precious few": English manuscript playbooks / William B. Long -- Craft of printing (1600) / Laurie E. Maguire -- London book-trade in 1600 / Mark Bland -- Liberty, license, and authority: press censorship and Shakespeare / Cyndia Susan Clegg -- Shakespeare: the myth / Michael D. Bristol.
