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Table of contents, Vol. 1: Early Plays and Poems

Table of contents, Vol. 2: Later Plays

Table of contents, Tragedies

Table of contents, Comedies

Table of contents, Histories

Table of contents, Romances and Poems

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Below is the table of contents for the complete one-volume clothbound edition.

*Indicates new or substantially revised in the Second Edition.

• CONTENTS: By Genre
• *LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION by Stephen Greenblatt
• SHAKESPEARE’S WORLD
• Life and Death
• Wealth
• Imports, Patents, and Monopolies
• Haves and Have-Nots
• Riot and Disorder
• The Legal Status of Women
• Women and Print
• Henry VIII and the English Reformation
• *Henry VIII’s Children: Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth
• The English Bible
• A Female Monarch in a Male World
• The Kingdom in Danger
• The English and Otherness
• *James I and the Union of the Crowns
• The Jacobean Court
• James’s Religious Policy and the Persecution of Witches
• THE PLAYING FIELD
• Cosmic Spectacles
• Music and Dance
• Alternative Entertainments
• The Enemies of the Stage
• Censorship and Regulation
• Theatrical Innovations
• SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE AND ART
• Shakespeare’s Family
• Education
• Traces of a Life
• *Portrait of the Playwright as a Young Provincial
• The Theater of the Nation
• Shakespeare Comes to London
• The Shakespearean Trajectory
• The Fetishism of Dress
• The Paradoxes of Identity
• The Poet of Nature
• The Play of Language
• THE DREAM OF THE MASTER TEXT
• *Shakespeare and the Printed Book
• From Foul to Fair: The Making of the Printed Play
• The Oxford Shakespeare
• The Norton Shakespeare
• THE SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE by Andrew Gurr
• Publication by Performance
• The Shakespearean Mindset
• London Playgoing and the Law
• The Design of the Globe
• The Original Staging Techniques
• Shakespeare’s Companies and Their Playhouses
• The Complete Works
• *THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
• *THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
• *THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION OF THE TWO FAMOUS HOUSES OF YORK AND
• LANCASTER (2 HENRY VI)
• THE TRUE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD DUKE OF YORK AND THE GOOD KING HENRY THE
• SIXTH (3 HENRY VI)
• TITUS ANDRONICUS
• THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH
• THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD
• VENUS AND ADONIS
• THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
• *THE REIGN OF KING EDWARD THE THIRD (Complete text available at student Web site)
• THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
• *LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
• LOVE’S LABOUR’S WON: A Brief Account
• A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
• THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET
• THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND
• *THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN
• THE COMICAL HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OR OTHERWISE CALLED
• THE JEW OF VENICE
• THE HISTORY OF HENRY THE FOURTH (1 HENRY IV)
• *THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
• *THE SECOND PART OF HENRY THE FOURTH
• MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
• THE LIFE OF HENRY THE FIFTH
• *THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
• AS YOU LIKE IT
• *THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
• TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL
• *TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
• *The Sonnets and “A Lover’s Complaint”
• *Various Poems
• *SIR THOMAS MORE: Passages Attributed to Shakespeare (Complete text available at student Web site)
• MEASURE FOR MEASURE
• *THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO THE MOOR OF VENICE
• ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
• THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS
• KING LEAR
• THE HISTORY OF KING LEAR: The Quarto Text
• THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR: The Folio Text
• THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR: A Conflated Text
• *THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
• *THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
• *PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
• *THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS
• THE WINTER’S TALE
• CYMBELINE, KING OF BRITAIN
• THE TEMPEST
• CARDENIO: A Brief Account
• *ALL IS TRUE (HENRY VIII)
• *THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
• APPENDICES
• *TIMELINE
• *MAPS
• Early Modern Map Culture by Jean E. Howard
• Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, and Western France: Places of Importance to Shakespeare’s Plays
• London: Places of Importance to Shakespeare’s Plays and London Play-Going
• The Mediterranean World: Places of Importance to Shakespeare’s Plays
• Map of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland taken from John Speed's 1612 edition of The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
• Early printed map of London, 1574, taken from a German atlas of European Cities by Braun and Hogenberg
• Map of the Holy Land included in the Theodore de Beze Bible printed in London, 1592.
• DOCUMENTS
• Robert Greene on Shakespeare (1592)
• Thomas Nashe on 1 Henry VI (1592)
• Henry Chettle on Greene and Shakespeare (1592)
• Gesta Grayorum on The Comedy of Errors (December 28, 1594)
• Francis Meres on Shakespeare (1598)
• Parnassus Plays on Shakespeare (1598–1601)
• Epilogue to the Queen, possibly by Shakespeare (1599)
• John Weever on Shakespeare (1599)
• Thomas Platter on Julius Caesar (September 21, 1599)
• Gabriel Harvey on Hamlet, Venus and Adonis, and The Rape of Lucrece (1598–1603)
• Contract for the Building of the Fortune Theatre (1600)
• Augustine Phillips, Francis Bacon, et al. on Richard III (1601)
• John Manningham on Twelfth Night and Richard III (1602)
• Letters Patent formalizing the adoption of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men as the King’s Men (May 19, 1603)
• Master of the Wardrobe’s Account (March 1604)
• Henry Jackson on Othello (September 1610)
• Simon Forman on Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale (1611)
• Chambers Account of Performances by the King’s Men (May 1613)
• Sir Henry Wotton on All Is True (Henry VIII) and the Burning of the Globe (1613)
• Ballad on the Burning of the Globe (June 30, 1613)
• Ben Jonson on The Tempest (and Titus Andronicus) (1614)
• Francis Beaumont (?) on Shakespeare (1615)
• Shakespeare’s Will (March 25, 1616)
• William Basse’s Elegy for Shakespeare (1616–23)
• Nicholas Richardson on Romeo and Juliet (1620)
• Front Matter from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s Plays (1623)
• Leonard Digges on Shakespeare (1623–35)
• Richard James on Falstaff (c. 1625)
• Milton on Shakespeare (1630)
• Ben Jonson on Shakespeare (1623–37)
• John Aubrey on Shakespeare (1681)
• TEXTUAL VARIANTS
• GLOSSARY
• *GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ILLUSTRATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INDEX OF POEMS: Titles and First Lines
• *INDEX OF SONGS
• INDEX OF PLAYS
• 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