A companion to Shakespeare's works

v. 1. The tragedies

v. 2. The histories

v. 3. The comedies

v. 4. Poems, problem comedies, late plays.

Volume I:

"A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy / David Scott Kastan

The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries / Martin Coyle

Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions / Katherine Rowe

The Divided Tragic Hero / Catherine Belsey

Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy / Philippa Berry

Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England / Sasha Roberts

Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History / Bernice W. Kliman

Text and Tragedy / Graham Holderness

Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity / Richard C. McCoy

Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies / Gordon Braden

Tragedy and Geography / Jerry Brotton

Classic Film Version of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times / Kenneth S. Rothwell

Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies / Mark Thornton Burnett

Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge / Ian Smith

"There is no world without Verona walls": The City in Romeo and Juliet / Naomi Conn Liebler

"He that thou knowest thine": Friendship and Service in Hamlet / Michael Neill

Julius Caesar / Rebecca W. Bushnell

Othello and the Problem of Blackness / Kim F. Hall

King Lear / Kiernan Ryan

Macbeth, the Present, and the Past / Kathleen McLuskie

The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below / Jyotsna G. Singh

Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art / Hugh Grady

Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure / Cynthia Marshall.

Volume II:

The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England / Ivo Kamps

Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History / Richard Helgerson

Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeare's England / Cyndia Susan Clegg

Nation Formation and the English History Plays / Patricia A. Cahill

The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare's English Histories / Willy Maley

Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare's England / William C. Carroll

"To beguile the time, look like the time": Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare's Histories / Peter J. Smith

The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? / Paulina Kewes

Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare's Histories / James Holstun

Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare's History Plays / Rebecca Ann Bach

French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare's History Plays / Linda Gregerson

The First Tetralogy in Performance / Ric Knowles

The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation / Lois Potter

1 Henry VI / David Bevington

Suffolk and the Pirates: Discordered Relations in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI / Tomas Cartelli

Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI / Kathryn Schwarz

"The power of hope?" An Early Modern Reader of Richard III / James Siemon

King John / Virginia Mason Vaughan

The King"s Melting Body: Richard II / Lisa Hopkins

1 Henry IV / James Knowles

Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History / Jonathan Crewe

Henry V / Andrew Hadfield.

Volume III

Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy / Janette Dillon

Shakespeare's Festive Comedies / Francois Laroque

The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy / Gail Kern Paster

Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies / Peter Holbrook

The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households / Mario DiGangi

Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies / Phyllis Rackin

The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies / Julie Crawford

Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life / Lena Cowen Orlin

Shakespeare's Comic Geographies / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.

Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare's Comedies / Lloyd Davis

Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff / Ian Frederick Moulton

Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre / Barbara Hodgdon

The Two Gentlemen of Verona / Jeffrey Masten

"Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?" The Taming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the Divided Audience / Pamela Allen Brown

The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study / Richard Dutton

Love's Labour's Last / John Michael Archer

A Midsummer Night's Dream / Helen Hackett

Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice / Marion Wynne-Davies

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor / Wendy Wall

Much Ado About Nothing / Alison Findlay

As You Like It / Juliet Dusinberre

Twelfth Night: "The Babbling Gossip of the Air" / Penny Gay.

Volume IV

Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History / Bruce R. Smith

The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis / Dympna Callaghan

Shakespeare's Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure / Paul Yachnin

The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre / Bruce Boehrer

Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well / Theodora A. Jankowski

Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeare's Problem Plays and Late Plays / John Jowett

"What's in a Name?" Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy / Barbara A. Mowat

Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher / Russ McDonald

Place and Space in Three Late Plays / John Gillies

The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays / David M. Bergeron

The Tempest in Performance / Diana E. Henderson

What It Feels Like for a Boy: Shakespeare's Brmid smf Sfpmod / Richard Rambuss

Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece / Copelia Kahn

The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare's Two Loves / Valerie Traub

The Two Party System in Troilus and Cressida / Linda Charnes

Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure / Karen Cunningham

"Doctor She": Healing and Sex in All's Well That Ends Well / Barbara Howard Traister

"You not your child well loving": Text and Family Structure in Pericles / Suzanne Gossett

"Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators": Iconomachy and The Winter's Tale / Marion O'Connor

Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance / Valerie Wayne.