Masterpieces / Frank O'Connor -- The Invention of Richard of Gloucester in 3 Henry VI and Richard III / E. Pearlman -- Shakespeare: Errors and Erōs / Erich Segal -- Romantic Comedy and Farce: The Taming of the Shrew / Harold Bloom -- Love's Labour's Lost: The Grace of Society / Thomas M. Greene -- The Meaning of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet / Harold C. Goddard -- A Midsummer Night?s Dream / G.K. Chesteron -- The Bolingbroke Plays / Northrop Frye -- The Rejection of Falstaff / A.C. Bradley -- The Merchant of Venice: Merging with a Perfect World / Joseph Westlund -- Much Ado About Nothing: the unsociable comedy / Barbara Everett -- Shakespeare's Characters: Henry V and Coriolanus / William Hazlitt -- "Alexander the Pig": Shakespeare on History and Poetry / David Quint -- Julius Caesar / Lawrence Danson -- As You Like It and the Containment of Comical Satire / James P. Bednarz -- Twelfth Night and the Morality of Indulgence / John Hollander -- Superposed Plays: Hamlet / Richard A. Lanham -- Dilation and Inflation: Shakespearean Increase in All's Well That Ends Well and Troilus and Cressida / Patricia Parker -- Measure for Measure: The Flesh Made Word / Ronald R. Macdonald -- Dramatic Intentions in Othello / Graham Bradshaw -- Nothing Begets Nothing: King Lear / Harold Bloom -- Macbeth / William Empson -- Nature's Piece 'gainst Fancy: Poetry and the Structure of Belief in Antony and Cleopatra / Janet Adelman -- The Poetics of Incomphrensibility: The Winter's Tale / Stephen Orgel -- Two Concepts of Allegory in The Tempest / A.D. Nuttall.