Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shakespearean Scholarship without Tears
  • Premises
  • The Author's Biases
  • The Mismatch of Four Centuries
  • An Actor's Guide to Shakespearean Scholarship
  • Theatrical Adventures in an Academic Library
  • Diggers and Delvers, Gleaners and Grooms
  • The Actor's Responsibilities
  • Which Shakespeare?
  • The Scholarly Editions
  • Nonscholarly Editions
  • Alternative Strategies
  • What Can Be Learned from Quartos and Folios?
  • In Search of Shakespeare's Text
  • Play-specific Commentaries
  • The Actor and the Text
  • Dictionaries, Reference Books, and Guides
  • Dictionaries for Shakespeare
  • Reference Books, Companions, and Guides
  • History Reference Books
  • Nonacademic Introductions and Overviews
  • A Debt of Gratitude
  • Pictures, Reproductions, and Reprints
  • Picture-filled General Introductions
  • Pictures of History
  • Castles and Sheepcotes
  • Portraits and Landscapes
  • Engravings and Woodblocks
  • European Renaissance Masters
  • Emblems
  • Shakespeare's Hand
  • Reproductions and Reprints
  • Shakespeare's Library
  • Verbal and Visual Portraits of Daily Life
  • Old Books Anew
  • The Shakespeare Industry
  • Famous Players of the World Stage
  • Reflections in a Mirror
  • The Glass of Fashion
  • Using the Past to Reflect the Present
  • Distorted Images of the Past
  • The Peopled World
  • Class
  • Honorable Service
  • Occupations
  • The Aristocracy
  • Fools
  • Villains, Rogues, and Notorious Failures
  • Shakespeare the Master of All Arts
  • Shakespeare's England
  • The Actor's Contribution to Social History.