Introduction / Jennifer Richards, James Knowles
"Gracious be the issue" : maternity and narrative in Shakespeare's late plays / Helen Hackett
"Thou hast made me now a man" : reforming man(ner)liness in Henry VIII / Gordon McMullan
"Near akin" : the trials of friendship in The two noble kinsmen / Alan Stewart
Social decorum in The winter's tale / Jennifer Richards
Pericles and the pox / Margaret Healy
Insubstantial pageants : The tempest and masquing culture / James Knowles
"An art lawful as eating"? : Magic in The tempest and The winter's tale / Gareth Roberts
Postcolonial Shakespeare : British identity formation and Cymbeline / Willy Maley
History and judgement in Henry VIII / Thomas Healy
"To write and read/Be henceforth treacherous" : Cymbeline and the problem of interpretation / Alison Thorne
Unseasonable laughter : the context of Cardenio / Richard Wilson
Tears at the wedding : Shakespeare's last phase / Julia Briggs.