Includes index.

An auspicious opening : The taming of the shrew -- The winter of our discontent : King Richard III -- Star-crossed lovers : Romeo and Juliet -- A fairy tale for grown-ups : A midsummer night's dream -- The hollow crown : Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, Henry V -- Sophisticated comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night -- A tide in men's lives : Julius Caesar -- I know not seems : Hamlet -- The green-eyed monster : Othello, the Moor of Venice -- Fatal vision : Macbeth -- A woman of infinite variety : Antony and Cleopatra -- Sans everything : King Lear -- You can't go home again : The winter's tale and The tempest -- Playing Shakespeare -- As we go to press.