The serious comedy of Twelfth night: dark didacticism in Illyria / Lisa Marciano -- Country matters: As you like it and the pastoral-bashing impulse / Linda Woodbridge -- Agency and the threat of cuckoldry in As you like and Merchant of Venice / Emily Detmer-Goebel -- Mimetic service in The two gentlemen of Verona / Elizabeth Rivlin -- The taming of a shrew: composition as induction to authorship / Roy Eriksen -- Stuffed with all honourable virtures: Much ado about nothing and The book of the courtier / Philip D. Collington -- Language, magic, the dromios and The comedy of errors / Kent Cartwright -- In Mercury's household: The merry wives of Windsor / Michael Steppat -- We know what we know: reckoning in Love's labor's lost / Cynthia Lewis -- Shylock's sacred nation / Aaron Kitch -- Shakespeare and impure aesthetics: the case of A midsummer night's dream / Hugh Grady.