Table of Contents

List of plates; 1. The catharsis of King Lear J. Stampfer; 2. Lear's last speech J. K. Walton; Albany Leo Kirschbaum; 3. Madness in King Lear Kenneth Muir; 4. The influence of Gorboduc on King Lear Barbara Heliodora Carneiro De Mendonça; 5. Some aspects of the style of King Lear Winifred M. T. Nowottny; 6. Keats and King Lear D. G. James; 7. King Lear on the stage: a producer's reflections Arnold Szyfman; 8. Costume in King Lear W. Moelwyn Merchant; 9. The marriage-contracts in Measure for Measure Ernest Schanzer; 10. Tom Skelton – a seventeenth-century Jester E. W. Ives; 11. Illustrations of social life III: street cries F. P. Wilson; 12. An Elizabethan stage drawing? R. A. Foakes and R. T. Rickert; 13. Was there a music-room in Shakespeare's Globe? Richard Hosley; 14. International notes; 15. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1958; 16. Three adaptations John Russell Brown; 17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Bernard Harris, R. A. Foakes and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.

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