v. 1. His world : The state: government and politics under Elizabeth and James / G.R. Elton ; The church: religion and its manifestations / Patrick Collinson ; Law and legal institutions / J.H. Baker ; Education and apprenticeship / Anthony Grafton ; Economic life in Shakespeare's England / D.C. Coleman ; Medicine and sanitation / Margaret Pelling ; Shakespeare and warfare / John Rigby Hale ; Patronage of the arts / F.J. Levy ; Theaters and the dramatic profession / Andrew Gurr ; Printing and publishing in the Tudor age / Arthur J. Slavin ; The sense of history in Renaissance England / J.G.A. Pocock ; The literate culture of Shakespeare's audience / S.K. Heninger, Jr. ; Science, magic, and folklore / Micharl MacDonald ; Travel by sea and land / David B. Quinn ; "Style is the man": manners, dress, and decorum / Lacey Baldwin Smith ; Daily life in city, town, and country / George P. Garrettt ; Shakespeare and foreigners / John L. Lievsay ; Painting and other fine arts / Wylie Sypher ; Forest, field, and garden / Joan Thirsk ; Sports and recreations / Roger Pringle.
v. 2. His work : The life: a survey / S. Schoenbaum ; Thinking about Shakespeare's thought / J. Leeds Barroll ; Shakespeare's professional career: poet and playwright / David Bevington ; Shakespeare and his contemporaries / M.C. Bradbrook ; Shakespeare's language / Marvin Spevack ; Shakespeare's poetic techniques / George T. Wright ; Shakespeare's use of prose / Brian Vickers ; Shakespeare's dramatic methods / Bernard Beckerman ; Music in Shakespeare's work / F.W. Sternfield and C.R. Wilson ; The visual arts in Shakespeare's work / John Dixon Hunt ; The sonnets / Margreta de Grazia ; The poems / Hallett Smith ; Shakespeare's treatment of English history / Peter Saccio ; Shakespeare's treatment of Roman history / J.L. Simmons ; Shakespeare as a writer of comedy / David Young ; Shakespeare's tragedies / Arthur Kirsch ; Shakespeare's tragicomedies and romances / John Russell Brown ; Shakespeare and his audiences / Ann Jennalie Cook ; Ethical and theological questions in Shakespeare's dramatic works / John F. Andrews ; Shakespeare's psychology / Meredith Skura.
v. 3. His influence : The publishing and editing of Shakespeare's plays / George Walton Williams ; Shakespeare on the English stage / Stanley Wells ; Shakespeare in the theater: the United States and Canada / Charles H. Shattuck ; Shakespeare as a world figure / Anne Paolucci ; Shakespeare on film and television / Jack J. Jorgens ; Shakespeare's reputation
then till now / Gerald Eades Bentley ; Shakespearean scholarship: from Rowe to the present / J. Philip Brockbank ; Shakespearean criticism / Arthur M. Eastman ; Shakespeare and the painter and illustrator / W. Moelwyn Merchant ; Shakespeare in music / Ellen T. Harris ; Major Shakespearean institutions / Ralph Berry ; Shakespeare and the modern writer / Anthony Burgess ; Shakespeare and the modern playwright / Peter Ustinov ; Shakespeare and the modern director / Jonathan Miller ; Tradition, style, and the Shakespearean actor today / Sir John Gielgud ; The cultural phenomenon of Shakespeare / Joseph G. Price ; Shakespeare and the humanities / Jacques Barzun ; Shakespeare and the modern critic / John Simon ; Teaching Shakespeare: tradition and the future / Homer Swander ; Contemporary issues in Shakespearean interpretation / Maurice Charney.
