Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Studies in the life and environment of Shakespeare since 1900 Charles J. Sisson; 2. Shakespeare's deposition in the Belott-Mountjoy suit; Shakespeare's reading F. P. Wilson; 3. Recent studies in Shakespeare's chronology James G. McManaway; 4. Coriolanus and the Midlands insurrection of 1607 E. C. Pettet; 5. The Shakespeare collection in the British Museum F. C. Francis; 6. The structural pattern of Shakespeare's tragedies Marco Mincoff; 7. The 'meaning' of Measure for Measure Clifford Leech; 8. Hamlet and the player who could not keep counsel J. M. Nosworthy; 9. Unworthy scaffolds: a theory for the reconstruction of Elizabethan playhouses C. Walter Hodges; 10. Shakespeare in the German open-air theatre Kurt Raeck; 11. Othello in Paris and Brussels Robert De Smet (translated by Sir Barry Jackson); 12. Shakespeare and Denmark: 1900–1949 Alf Henriques; 13. International news; A Stratford production: Henry VIII Muriel St Clare Byrne; 14. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Una Ellis-Fermor, Clifford Leech and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.

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