Table of Contents

List of plates; 1. The problem plays, 1920–1970: a retrospect Michael Jamieson; 2. 'Sons and daughters of the game': an essay on Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida R. A. Yoder; 3. The opinions of the audience: theory and practice in Peter Brook's Measure for Measure Herbert S. Weil, Jr; 4. Man's need and God's plan in Measure for Measure and Mark IV Sarah C. Velz; 5. The design of All's Well That Ends Well R. L. Smallwood; 6. Directing problem plays: John Barton talks to Gareth Lloyd Evans; 7. The Queen Mab speech in Romeo and Juliet Sidney Thomas; 8. Time's deformed hand': sequence, consequence, and inconsequence in The Comedy of Errors Gamini Salgado; 9. Faith and fashion in Much Ado About Nothing David Ormerod; 10. The Merry Wives of Windsor as a Hallowe'en play Jeanne Addison Roberts; 11. The Tempest at the turn of the century: cross-currents in production Mary M. Nilan; 12. Variations within a source: from Isaiah XXIX to The Tempest Ann Pasternak Slater; 13. The life of George Wilkins Roger Prior; 14. A neurotic Portia Murray Biggs; 15. Of an age and for all time: Shakespeare at Stratford Richard David; 16. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Norman Sanders, Nigel Alexander and Richard Proudfoot; Index.

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