1. Shakespeare and the eighteenth century: criticism and research Catherine M. S. Alexander

2. Daddy's girls: Shakespearian daughters and eighteenth-century ideology Jean I. Marsden

3. Shakespeare and Clarissa: 'general nature', genre and sexuality Martin Scofield

4. Early Georgian politics and Shakespeare: the Black Act and Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest (1723) Katherine West Scheil

5. Race mattered: Othello in late eighteenth-century England Virginia Mason Vaughan

6. From Pericles to Marina: 'while women are to be had for money, love, or importunity' Sonia Massai

7. A thousand twangling instruments: music and The Tempest on the eighteenth-century London stage Irena Cholij

8. Double Falsehood and the verbal parallels with Shelton's Don Quixote A. Luis Pujante

9. Eighteenth-century performances of Shakespeare recorded in the theatrical portraits of the Garrick Club Desmond Shawe-Taylor

10. Eighteenth-century editing, 'appropriation', and interpretation Marcus Walsh

11. Shakespeare Survey: beginnings and continuities Philip Edwards

12. Destined livery? Character and person in Shakespeare William Dodd

13. Prejudice and law in The Merchant of Venice B. J. Sokol

14. 'Many a civil monster': Shakespeare's idea of the centaur Eric C. Brown

15. Shakespeare's international currency John Russell Brown

16. Repeopling the Globe: the opening season at Shakespeare's Globe, London 1997 Michael Cordner

17. Shakespeare performances in England, 1997 Robert Smallwood

18. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, 1996 Niky Rathbone

19. The Year's contributions to Shakespeare Studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Janette Dillon, 2. Shakespeare's life, times and stage reviewed by Alison Findlay, 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by John Jowett.