Character and reality in Shakespeare / Robert Ornstein -- Manliness in the tragedies / Robert B. Heilman -- Dramatic variations / Robert B. Heilman -- Is Hamlet a hoax? / William T. Hastings -- The momment of final suspense in Hamlet "We defy Augury" / Fredson Bowers -- Christian pessimism in King Lear / Kenneth Myrick -- The ending of King Lear / Nicholas Brooke -- Shakespeare and the toil of grace / Adrien Bonjour -- Shakespeare's later tragedies / R. A. Foakes -- The fairy-tale element in The Taming of the Shrew / E. M. W. Tillyard -- Ariel and the outer mystery / Robert H. West -- Time Beguiling sport / Christopher Butler and Alastair Fowler -- Number symbolism in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis / Christopher Butler and Alastair Fowler -- Sonnets 127-154 / Brents Stirling -- "A lovers Complaint" / Kenneth Muir -- A reconsideration / Kenneth Muir -- Shakespeare and the trivium / Hardin Craig -- The great rival / T.J.B. Spencer -- Shakespeare and the classical dramatists / T. J. B. Spencer -- Shakespeare criticism 1900-1964 / Irving Ribner