Shakespeare's early comedy -- Shakespeare at thirty -- Pathos and dream -- The world of action -- All's well -- The crisis -- The tragic substance -- The end -- Shakespeare's last word -- Project: an edition of King Lear -- Textual introduction [King Lear] -- Staging [Lear] -- The conceiving of King Lear -- Letters on Lear -- William Houghton, William Haughton, The Shrew and the Sonnets -- The sonnets -- The Comedy of Errors -- 1590: King John -- 2 Henry VI -- 3 Henry VI -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- On Macbeth -- Shakespeare's poor relation : 2 Henry IV -- Shakespeare's reality.