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 / A. 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 / Steve 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 Dramatic Verse / Alison Findlay
Part 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, Love, Fear, and Pride 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 Shakespeare's 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 E. Sanchez
29. Poetry and Compassion in Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint' / Katharine A. Craik
30. Reading 'The Phoenix and Turtle' / John Kerrigan
Part 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
Part VII. Translating Shakespeare
36. Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare as a French Poet / Efraín 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 / Belén Bistué.