List of illustrations; 1. Reconstructing Shakespeare, or Harlotry in Bardolatry Charles Marowitz; 2. Playing Shakespeare Peggy Ashcroft; 3. Take me to your Leda Terence Hawkes; 4. Sign theory and Shakespeare Marvin Rosenberg; 5. Time in Richard III Guy Hamel; 6. New concepts of staging A Midsummer Night's Dream Maik Hamburger; 7. Henry V as working-house of ideology Günter Walch; 8. Shakespeare and his sources: observations on the critical history of Julius Caesar Robert S. Miola; 9. The speculative eye: problematic self-knowledge in Julius Caesar William O. Scott; 10. Learning by talking: conversation in As You Like It Martha Ronk Lifson; 11. Measure for Measure: mirror for mirror Ruth Nevo; 12. Allegory and irony in Othello Antoinette B. Dauber; 13. Cruelty, King Lear, and the South African Land Act 1913 Martin Orkin; 14. The rationale of current bibliographical methods: printing house studies, computer-aided compositor studies, and the use of statistical methods Manfred Draudt; 15. Shakespeare's late plays at Stratford, Ontario Roger Warren; 16. Shakespeare performances in London, Manchester, and Stratford-upon-Avon 1985–86 Nicholas Shrimpton; 17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study R. S. White, Richard Dutton and MacDonald P. Jackson; Index.