Preface, Jonathan Post
Part I: Style and Language
1. Shakespeare's Styles, Gordon Teskey
2. Shakespeare's Style in The 1590s, Goran Stanivukovic
3. Shakespeare's Late Style, R. Braunmuller
4. Shakespeare and the Arts of Cognition, Sophie Read
5. Fatal Cleopatras and Golden Apples: Economies of Wordplay in Some Shakespearean Numbers, Margaret Ferguson
Part II: Inheritance and Invention
6. Classical Influences, Colin Burrow
7. Shakespeare and Italian Poetry, Anthony Mortimer
8. Du Bellay and Shakespeare's Sonnets, Anne Lake Prescott
9. Open Voicing: Wyatt and Shakespeare, Linda Gregerson
10. Grammar Rules in the Sonnets: Sidney and Shakespeare, Alysia Kolentsis
11. Commonplace Shakespeare: Value, Vulgarity, and the Poetics of Increase in Shake-speares Sonnets and Troilus and Cressida, Catherine Nicholson
12. Philomela's Marks: Ekphrasis and Gender in Shakespeare s Poems and Plays, Marion Wells
13. Shakespeare, Elegy, and Epitaph: 1557-1640, John Kerrigan
Part III: Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads
14. Song in Shakespeare: Rhetoric, Identity, Agency, Gavin Alexander
15. Shakespeare's Popular Songs and The Great Temptations of Lesser Lyric, Steven Newman
Part IV: Speaking on Stage
16. Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse Line, Abigail Rokison
17. Shakespeare's Word Music, Paul Edmondson
18. Finding Your Footing in Shakespeare's Verse, Bruce R. Smith
19. From bad to verse: poetry and spectacle on the modern Shakespearean stage, Jeremy Lopez
20. Make my image but an alehouse sign : The Poetry of Women in Shakespeare s Drama, Alison Findlay
V. Reading Shakespeare s Poems
21. To show. . .And so to publish: Reading, Writing, and Performing in the Narrative Poems, Charlotte Scott
22. Outgrowing Adonis, outgrowing Ovid: the disorienting narrative of Venus and Adonis, Subha Mukherji
23. Shame, Fear, and Love in The Rape of Lucrece, Joshua Scodel
24. The Sonnets in the Classroom: Student, Teacher, Editor-Annotator(s), and Cruxes, David Sofield
25. Fortify yourself in your decay: Sounding Rhyme and Rhyming Effects in Shakespeare's Sonnets, L. E. Semler
26. The Conceptual Investigations of Sonnets, David Schalkwyk
27. Pretty Rooms: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design, Russ McDonald
28. The Poetics of Feminine Subjectivity in Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint', Melissa Sanchez
29. Poetry and Compassion in Shakespeare's `A Lover's Complaint', Katharine Craik
30. Reading 'The Phoenix and Turtle', John Kerrigan
VI: Later Reflections
31. Shakespearean Poetry and the Romantics, Michael O Neill
32. Shakespearean Being: The Victorian Bard, Herbert F. Tucker
33. Shakespeare's Loose Ends and the Contemporary Poet, Peter Robinson
34. The Sound of Shakespeare Thinking, James Longenbach
35. Melted in American Air, Judith Hall
VII: Translating Shakespeare
36. Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare, Efrain Kristal
37. Glocal Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Poems in Germany, Christa Jansohn
38. Negotiating the Universal: Translations of Shakespeare s Poetry In (Between) Spain and Spanish America, Belen Bistue