Introduction

Donald W. Rude

Shakespeare Biography in His Plays
David Bevington

The (In)significance: "What the Age might call sodomy" and Homosexuality in Certain Recent Studies of Shakespeare's Plays
Joseph Pequigney

Shakespeare's Ghost and Felicia Hemans's The Vespers of Palermo: Nineteenth-Century Readings of the Page and Feminist Meanings for the Stage
Marjean Purinton

Harry of Monmouth and the Gown-of-Needles
Sally Romotsky

Paradox and the Form of Metamorphosis: Systems Theory in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bruce Clarke

"Is This the Promised End?: Witness in King Lear and Apocalyptic Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Jacqueline Kolosov

Review

Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Jacob Blevins