Shakespeare : text, subtext, and context / edited by Ronald Dotterer.

Foreword / Werner Gundersheimer -- Preface / Ronald Dotterer -- All that is know concerning Shakespeare / S. Schoenbaum -- Subtext in Shakespeare / Jay L. Halio -- Seeing and believing : eavesdropping and stage groupings in Twelfth night and Troilus and Cressida / Michael W. Shurgot -- The recovery of the Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses / C. Walter Hodges -- Shakespeare's tragic homeopathy / Maurice Hunt -- Shakespeare's dramaturgical foresight in King Lear / Norman A. Brittin -- Macbeth and its audience / Michael J. Collins -- The critical reception of Shakespeare's tragedies in twentieth-century Germany / Rüdiger Ahrens -- Revising a map misread : Hamlet, romantic self-consciousness, and the roots of modern tragedy / Daniel W. Ross. The status of women in Othello / Elizabeth Wiley -- Remembering patriarchy in As you like it / Kay Stanton -- Timon's servant takes a wife / Ann Jennalie Cook -- Puck's headless bear : revisited / Charles A. Rahter -- Textual double knots : "make rope's in such a scarre" / Gary Taylor -- "Dumb significants" : the poetics of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy / Richard Fly -- Parrots, paraquitos, and poppinjays : of birds and words in 1 Henry IV / William Collins Watterson -- A contemporary playwright looks at Shakespeare's plays / John Mortimer., General note: Includes index.