Companion to Shakespeare Studies

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The life of Shakespeare J. W. Mackail
2. The theatres and companies C. J. Sisson
3. Shakespeare's dramatic art Harley Granville-Baker
4. Shakespeare the poet George Rylands
5. Shakespeare and Elizabethan English G. D. Willcock
6. Shakespeare and music Edward J. Dent
7. The national background G. B. Harrison
8. The social background M. St Clare Byrne
9. Shakespeare's sources A. L. Attwater
10. Shakespeare and the drama of his time Bonamy Dobrée
11. Shakespeare's text A. W. Pollard
12. Shakespearian Criticism I: from Dryden to Coleridge T. S. Eliot
13. Shakespearian criticism II: From Coleridge to the present day J. Isaacs
14. Shakespearian scholarship J. Isaacs
15. Shakespeare in the theatre from the Restoration to the present time Harold Child
Reading list
Appendix 1. Comparative tables of the age and dramatic activity of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Appendix 2. A chronological table (plays, books, and national events)
Appendix 3. A note on prices in Shakespeare's time A. V. Judges
Index.